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Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 14, 2015
Applicant:

Lenovo Enterprise Solutions (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., New Tech Park, SG;

Inventors:

Barry Alan Kritt, Research Triangle Park, NC (US);

Sarbajit Kumar Rakshit, Kolkata, IN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/40 (2019.01); G06F 16/44 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/444 (2019.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01);
Abstract

An apparatus for presenting search results includes a content module that gathers user-generated content from a plurality of users of a social networking service, the user-generated content relating to one or more of an event and an activity, a cluster module that identifies a cluster of related user-generated content from the location information of the gathered user-generated content, the cluster comprising a plurality of items of user-generated content relating to one or more of a common event and an activity that have a geographically similar location, an area module that determines an area containing the cluster of related user-generated content, a search module that receives a search query, the search query related to one or more of the common event and activity of the cluster, and a map display module that presents, on an electronic map, a boundary for the determined area.


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