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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2012
Johnny Hsienchow Lee, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Chun to Tse, San Francisco, CA (US);
Johnny Hsienchow Lee, San Gabriel, CA (US);
Chun To Tse, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simple Rules, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for providing a recommendation to a user, including retrieving, connection content associated with social network connections of the user; calculating, for each of the social network connections, an influence score for each of a plurality of locations; receiving a request location from a user device associated with the user; extracting a recommendation from relevant connection content, the relevant connection content being content associated with the request location and generated by at least one of the social network connections having the highest influence scores for the request location, the recommendation comprising a venue referenced within the relevant connection content; and sending the recommendation to the user device.