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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 30, 2021
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2018
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Daniel Amitay, New York City, NY (US);
Jonathan Brody, Venice, CA (US);
Timothy Jordan Garcia, Venice, CA (US);
Leonid Gorkin, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Andrew Lin, Long Island City, NY (US);
Walton Lin, New York, NY (US);
Evan Spiegel, Venice, CA (US);
Nayana Samaranayake, New York, NY (US);
Snap Inc., Santa Monica, CA (US);
Abstract
A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing social media content submitted for public accessibility via the social media platform supported by the map-based GUI. The GUI includes a map providing interactive location-based searching functionality in that selection of a target location by the user in the GUI, such as by tapping or clicking at the target location, triggers a search for social media content having geo-tag data indicating geographic locations within a geographical search area centered on the target location.