Realtime activity suggestion from social and event data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9495383-B2
Application number	US-201313974014-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2013
Priority date	Aug 22, 2013
Publication date	Nov 15, 2016
Grant date	Nov 15, 2016

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.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a hardware processor, and a memory device configured to store computer-executable instructions, that when executed by the hardware processor, enable:
an aggregation component configured to receive geographically-referenced social data and geographically-referenced event data associated with a spatial extent, to aggregate the event data over a span of time, to identify groups of event locations based on the aggregated event data, and to aggregate the social data for each group over the span of time to derive a value as a measure of attendance for a given group; and
a suggestion component configured to suggest an itinerary of a series of activities in the spatial extent of the event data to a user based on the values for the corresponding groups.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the social data is check-in data, and the spatial extent is a geographical area or a virtually defined area.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the aggregation component is configured to model an event and associated popularity distribution across the spatial extent.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the suggestion component is configured to suggest activities based in part on user preferences, user context, and user intent for a given user-specified location.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the suggestion component is configured to suggest a series of activities and events based on a user-specified time and location.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the suggestion component is configured to suggest new activities that relate to a given selected activity based on user location and time.

7. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a profile component configured to generate activity profiles of users, which are applied as filters across different times and locations for suggesting the activities by the suggestion component in realtime.

8. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a prediction component configured to predict future activities and spatial extents for the future activities based on past activity and event data.

9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a presentation component configured to provide activity regions on a map that delineates areas, streets, and neighborhoods for one or more activities and for presentation to the user.

10. A method, comprising acts of:
receiving geographically-referenced social data and geographically-referenced event data associated with a geographical area;
aggregating the event data over a span of time;
identifying groups of event locations based on the aggregated event data;
aggregating the social data for each group over the span of time to derive a value as a measure of attendance and popularity for a given group; and
suggesting an itinerary of activities and events in the geographical area that may be of interest to a user based on the values for the corresponding groups.

11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising presenting the activities for a user-specified area on a geographically-based heatmap.

12. The method of claim 10 , further comprising predicting upcoming activities and geographical areas for the upcoming activities and events based on historical information.

13. The method of claim 10 , further comprising suggesting the activities and events for a user-specified location based on user preferences, context, and intent.

14. The method of claim 10 , further comprising suggesting the activities and events chronologically based on a user-specified geographical area and span of time.

15. The method of claim 10 , further comprising suggesting activities related to a specific activity selected by a user and that depends on the user location and time.

16. A computer-readable hardware storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed by a hardware microprocessor, cause the microprocessor to perform acts of:
receiving geographically-referenced social check-in data and geographically-referenced event data associated with a spatial extent;
aggregating the event data over a span of time;
identifying groups of event locations based on the aggregated event data;
aggregating the social check-in data for each group over the span of time to derive a value as a measure of attendance for a given group;
suggesting a series of activities and events in the geographical area that may be of interest to a user based on the values for the corresponding groups; and
presenting the activities and events for a user-specified geographical area on a geographically-based map with graphical emphasis that corresponds to the values.

17. The computer-readable hardware storage medium of claim 16 , further comprising predicting upcoming activities and geographical areas for the upcoming activities and events based on historical information.

18. The computer-readable hardware storage medium of claim 16 , further comprising suggesting the activities and events for a user-specified location of the spatial extent based on user preferences, context, and intent.

19. The computer-readable hardware storage medium of claim 16 , further comprising suggesting the activities and events chronologically based on a user-specified geographical area and span of time.

20. The computer-readable hardware storage medium of claim 16 , further comprising generating activity profiles for given users for filtering across the span of time and spatial extents and suggesting the activities and events in realtime.

Assignees

• Microsoft Corp
• Microsoft Tech Licensing

Inventors

• Mishra Pragyana K
• Reddy Nagareddy S

Classifications

• G06Q10/40

  Business processes related to social networking or social networking services · CPC title

• G06F17/30241 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q50/01

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q30/0282

  Rating or review of business operators or products · CPC title

• G06Q30/0261 Primary

  based on user location · CPC title