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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2013
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Gueorgui Djabarov, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Daniel Jeng-Ping Hui, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Joshua Williams, Menlo Park, CA (US);
FACEBOOK, INC, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for server-controlled tiling of location-based information are described. An apparatus may comprise a communication component and a tile component. The communication component may be operative to receive a location-based search request from a client application, the location-based search request comprising a geographic area, and to transmit a plurality of tiles to the client application. The tile component may be operative to determine the plurality of tiles as a set of tiles that cover the geographic area, each tile of the plurality of tiles covering a portion of the geographic area and comprising a set of locations. Other embodiments are described and claimed.