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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2013
Sprylogics International Corp., Concord, CA;
Bhavuk Kaul, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aleksandar Zivkovic, North York, CA;
Bradley Michael Marks, Toronto, CA;
Marvin Igelman, Thornhill, CA;
Sprylogics International Corp., Concord, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products determine, for a number of individuals having a common interest, locations relevant to that common interest. Each individual possesses a user terminal that has a location and executes a messaging application. During the course of a messaging conversation, the application transmits search parameters to a central server. The search parameters may be entered manually or determined automatically by analyzing the conversation. The server identifies clusters of locations that satisfy the search parameters in addition to satisfying geographic proximity to the participants in the conversation. The server scores the clusters, and transmits to the user terminal data relating thereto, for integrated display in the messaging application. Relevant advertising may be identified and transmitted for contemporaneous display.