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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 02, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2016
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Charles Joseph Hughes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
An online system receives a description of a physical location associated with a content item and a threshold distance of the physical location. To identify users eligible to be presented with the content item, the online system divides a geographic map of the physical location associated with the content item into a plurality of geo-tiles each representing a portion of the map. The online system computes and stores values describing portions of a geographic region represented by certain geo-tiles and associates the geographic region with the physical location if the stored values equal or exceed a threshold value. If the geographic region is associated with the physical location, users associated with the geographic region are identified by the online system as eligible to receive the content item.