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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 02, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gregor Hochmuth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Tim Van Damme, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip McAllister, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin Systrom, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Displaying media items on a map includes: obtaining a plurality of media items; selecting a first representative media item that defines a first region; determining a first set of media items that belong to the first region; selecting a second representative media item, wherein the second representative media item does not belong to the first region, and the second representative media item defines a second region; determining a second set of media items that belong to the second region; and displaying on the map a first set of media items that belong to the first region and a second set of media items that belong to the second region, including displaying the first representative media item on the map at a first location corresponding to the first region, and displaying the second representative media item on the map at a second location corresponding to the second region.