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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2013
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Pragyana K. Mishra, Bellevue, WA (US);
Nagareddy S. Reddy, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Redmon, WA (US);
Abstract
Architecture that aggregates realtime geo-referenced data over areas such as physical world geographical areas and virtually-defined areas such as by geofences to provide users with a quick overview and suggestion of activities to do across an area of interest in the spatial extent. The geo-referenced data can be supplied by a provider and/or user. When in combination, event listings can be obtained from providers and social data (e.g., check-in) can be obtained from social websites and/or businesses that make check-in data available freely or under subscription, for example. At least one advantageous outcome of the disclosed aggregation approach is that privacy issues, which currently exist in the industry by showing exact locations of user-contributed data, are overcome. While aggregating over larger spatial extents having high activity, the events supplied by provider listings are assigned scores that show trending and/or high-user activity volumes, and therefore, can be suggested to users.