Social media message delivery based on user location

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9722964-B2
Application number	US-201615291398-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 12, 2016
Priority date	Mar 27, 2014
Publication date	Aug 1, 2017
Grant date	Aug 1, 2017

Abstract

An approach for delaying social media messages is provided herein. A first computing device receives user preferences. The first computing device detects a social media message of a user. The first computing device determines that the user is not in the physical location. The first computing device determines whether to delay the posting of the social media message based on a comparison of the content of the social media message with the received user preferences.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer system for delaying a social media message, the computer system comprising:
one or more processors, one or more computer-readable memories, one or more computer-readable tangible storage devices, and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices for execution by at least one of the one or more processors via at least one of the one or more memories, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to receive a first location of a user;
program instructions to detect a social media message of the user, wherein the social media message includes an image;
program instructions to determine one or more keywords based on identifying one or more landmarks depicted in the image;
program instructions to determine a second location of the user by comparing the one or more keywords with a locational reference database;
program instructions to determine whether the second location of the user is within a threshold distance of the first location of the user;
based on determining that the second location of the user is not within the threshold distance of the first location of the user, program instructions to delay a request to post the social media message and storing the social media message in a holding queue;
program instructions to reference a global positioning system (GPS) corresponding to a device associated with the user to determine one or more GPS coordinates;
program instructions to determine a third location based on the one or more GPS coordinates;
program instructions to detect that the third location of the user is within the threshold distance of the first location of the user; and
program instructions to transmit the request to post the social media message.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Abuelsaad Kelly
• Deluca Lisa Seacat
• Jang Soobaek
• Krook Daniel C

Classifications

• H04L51/32

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/18

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L51/10

  Multimedia information · CPC title

• H04L51/20 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06K9/00671

  Physics · mapped topic