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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 12, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Erick Tseng, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew Cahill, San Francisco, CA (US);
Neel Ishwar Murarka, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Charles Jolley, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing geolocation data indicating a current geolocation of a client device of a user; identifying one or more categories of interest to the user based at least in part on social information of the user; identifying one or more objects based at least in part on the current geolocation; and determining one or more recommendations for the user based at least in part on a calculated interest value of each identified object. The calculated interest value is based at least in part on the identified categories of interest to the user. The method also includes providing the recommendations for transmission to the client device. The recommendations include one or more of the identified objects.