System and method for creating and managing geofeeds

• US 9,906,576 B2
• Filed: 10/21/2016
• Issued: 02/27/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tai Technologies Inc. (Crisis24)
• Original Assignee: Tai Technologies Inc. (Crisis24)
• Inventors: Harris, Philip B., Mulroy, Michael J., Mitchell, Scott K.
• Primary Examiner(s): JEAN GILLES, JUDE
• Application Number:
  US15/331,401
• Publication Number:
  US 20170041365A1
• Time in Patent Office: 494 Days
• Field of Search: 709217, 709206, 709204, 709207, 709218
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/487 using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/75 Media network packet handling
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

The disclosure relates to systems and methods of burning, snapshotting, streaming and curating geofeeds, each geofeed including a plurality of geofeed content items that are aggregated from a plurality of content providers using respective requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the plurality of content providers, where each individual set of a plurality of content is relevant to one or more geographically definable locations. Archives of a geofeed may be generated by burning portions or all of the geofeed content items and/or generating snapshots of geofeeds at different times. A real-time geofeed may be streamed by continuously or periodically obtaining newly available geofeed content items and updated a geofeed stream in real-time. Collections of geofeed content items may be curated in order to organize and follow geofeed content items of interest.

Claims

1. A method for curating social media content items relevant to one or more geographically definable locations into a plurality of collections each associated with a corresponding classification of social media content items, the plurality of collections comprising at least a first collection and a second collection, the method being implemented in a computer system having one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, cause the computer system to perform the method, the method comprising:

obtaining, by the computer system, from one or more social media content providers, a plurality of social media content items based on one or more requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the one or more social media content providers, wherein the plurality of social media content items are each relevant to one or more geographically definable locations and include at least a first social media content item and a second social media content item;

identifying, by the computer system, a first classification for the first social media content item;

adding, by the computer system, the first social media content item to the first collection based on the identified first classification;

identifying, by the computer system, a second classification for the second social media content item;

adding, by the computer system, the second social media content item to the second collection based on the identified second classification;

receiving, by the computer system, a request for social media content items from the first collection;

obtaining, by the computer system, at least the first social media content item based on the request for social media content items from the first collection; and

causing, by the computer system, at least the first social media content item to be provided responsive to the request for social media content items from the first collection.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first collection is associated with a first topic and wherein the second collection is associated with a second topic different than the first topic.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein identifying the first classification comprises:

identifying, by the computer system, one or more keywords from the first social media content item; and

determining, by the computer system, that the one or more keywords correspond to the first topic.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the first classification comprises:

receiving, by the computer system, in association with the first social media content item, a first collection identifier that identifies the first collection to which the first social media content item should be added.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first collection is associated with a first event, and wherein identifying the first classification comprises:

determining, by the computer system, that the first social media content item is related to the first event.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first collection is associated with a first type of content, and wherein identifying the first classification comprises:

determining, by the computer system, that the first social media content item is the first type of content.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first collection is associated with a first keyword and wherein the second collection is associated with a second keyword different than the first keyword.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein adding the first social media content item to the first collection comprises:

storing, by the computer system, the first social media content item in association with a first collection identifier that identifies the first collection.

9. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

receiving, by the computer system, a request for the plurality of social media content items relevant to the one or more geographically definable locations.

10. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising:

receiving, by the computer system, one or more geofeed parameters used to filter in or out content from the one or more social media content providers.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining the plurality of social media content items from the one or more social media content providers comprises:

formatting, by the computer system, a first request for one or more social media content items specifically for a first social media content provider, wherein the first social media content item is received responsive to the first request; and

formatting, by the computer system, a second request for one or more social media content items specifically for a second social media content provider, wherein the second social media content item is received responsive to the second request.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein obtaining at least the first social media content based on the request for the first collection comprises:

determining, by the computer system, whether one or more social media content items associated with the first collection are stored locally;

responsive to a determination that one or more social media content items associated with the first collection are stored locally, obtaining, by the computer system, at least the first social media content item from a local memory; and

responsive to a determination that one or more social media content items associated with the first collection are not stored locally, obtaining, by the computer system, at least the first social media content item from a social media content provider associated with the first social media content item.

13. A system for curating social media content items relevant to one or more geographically definable locations into a plurality of collections each associated with a corresponding classification of social media content items, the plurality of collections comprising at least a first collection and a second collection, the system comprising:

a computer system comprising one or more physical processors programmed with computer program instructions that, when executed by the one or more physical processors, program the computer system to;

obtaining, from one or more social media content providers, a plurality of social media content items based on one or more requests formatted specifically for individual ones of the one or more social media content providers, wherein the plurality of social media content items are each relevant to one or more geographically definable locations and include at least a first social media content item and a second social media content item;

identify a first classification for the first social media content item;

add the first social media content item to the first collection based on the identified first classification;

identify a second classification for the second social media content item;

add the second social media content item to the second collection based on the identified second classification;

receive a request for social media content items from the first collection;

obtain at least the first social media content item based on the request for social media content items from the first collection; and

cause at least the first social media content item to be provided responsive to the request for social media content items from the first collection.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the first collection is associated with a first topic and wherein the second collection is associated with a second topic different than the first topic.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein to identify the first classification, the computer system is further programmed to:

identify one or more keywords from the first social media content item; and

determine that the one or more keywords correspond to the first topic.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein to identify the first classification, the computer system is further programmed to:

receive, in association with the first social media content item, a first collection identifier that identifies the first collection to which the first social media content item should be added.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the first collection is associated with a first event, and wherein to identify the first classification, the computer system is further programmed to:

determine that the first social media content item is related to the first event.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the first collection is associated with a first type of content, and wherein to identify the first classification, the computer system is further programmed to:

determine that the first social media content item is the first type of content.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the first collection is associated with a first keyword and wherein the second collection is associated with a second keyword different than the first keyword.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein to add the first social media content item to the first collection, the computer system is further programmed to:

store the first social media content item in association with a first collection identifier that identifies the first collection.

21. The system of claim 13, wherein the computer system is further programmed to:

receive a request for the plurality of social media content items relevant to the one or more geographically definable locations.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein the computer system is further programmed to:

receive one or more geofeed parameters used to filter in or out content from the one or more social media content providers.

23. The system of claim 13, wherein to obtain the plurality of social media content items from the one or more social media content providers, the computer system is further programmed to:

format a first request for one or more social media content items specifically for a first social media content provider, wherein the first social media content item is received responsive to the first request; and

format a second request for one or more social media content items specifically for a second social media content provider, wherein the second social media content item is received responsive to the second request.

24. The system of claim 13, wherein to obtain at least the first social media content based on the request for the first collection, the computer system is further programmed to:

determine whether one or more social media content items associated with the first collection are stored locally;

responsive to a determination that one or more social media content items associated with the first collection are stored locally, obtain at least the first social media content item from a local memory; and

responsive to a determination that one or more social media content items associated with the first collection are not stored locally, obtain at least the first social media content item from a social media content provider associated with the first social media content item.