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Date of Patent:
Jun. 25, 2019

Filed:

Dec. 30, 2015
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jonathan Tannen, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Bogdan State, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/306 (2013.01); G06F 16/35 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/327 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes a computing device receiving postings from users of an online social networking system. A postings may include location data along with one or more tags that may describe the content of the posting. The computing device may identify regions and subregions from which the postings originated, and may determine a distribution of the tags according to two data dimensions: the ubiquity of the tags across the regions, and the ubiquity of the tags across the subregions. Based on the distribution, the computing device may create a neighborhood characterization to accurately describe one or more subregions. The computing device may also determine applications for the neighborhood characterization.


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