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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 20, 2018
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2015
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Bradley Ray Green, Snohomish, WA (US);
Li Ju, Issaquah, WA (US);
Jireh Yiwei Tan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Chen Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Yi Miao, Redmond, WA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A social networking system selects a set of groups for presentation to a user of the social networking system. To select groups, the social networking system identifies candidate groups and selects the set of groups from the candidate groups. To identify certain candidate groups, the social networking system determines a location associated with various groups based on locations associated with users included in the group. For example, the social networking system determines a centroid of a group based on locations associated with users included in the group and associates the centroid with the group if at least a threshold percentage of distances between locations associated with users included in the group and the centroid do not exceed a threshold distance. Groups associated with locations within a threshold distance of a location associated with the user are identified as candidate groups.