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Recommending points of interests in a region

  • US 9,501,577 B2
  • Filed: 03/16/2015
  • Issued: 11/22/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/25/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented at least partially by one or more processors, the method comprising:

  • providing a spatial map containing geographical regions partitioned into grids;

    identifying a user-specified region with a first plurality of points of interests in each of one or more representative categories in the spatial map;

    searching for a set of geographical region candidates with a second plurality of points of interests in each of the one or more representative categories based at least in part on a spatial similarity to comparable points of interest in the one or more representative categories in the user-specified region, the spatial similarity comprises comparable distribution of respective points of interests of the user-specified region and the set of geographical region candidates in the one or more representative categories; and

    presenting a predefined number of top geographical region candidates of the set of geographical region candidates based at least in part on a result of the searching.

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