Recommending Objects To A User Of A Social Networking System Based On The Location Of The User

Patent №

US 9,563,709

Granted

2017-02-07

Filed 2014

Owner

FACEBOOK, INC.

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14296369

A social networking system recommends objects, such as pages, of the social networking system to users of the social networking system based on the location of the user. The social networking system obtains location information identifying the location of the user. Based on the location of the user, the social networking system identifies levels of geographical partitions encompassing the location of the user. For each level of geographical partitions, the social networking system accesses relevant objects of the social networking system with connections to users located within the level of geographical partitions. The social networking system may have determined a term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) value for each relevant object. Based on the number of connections and the tf-idf value associated with each relevant object, the social networking system merges the relevant objects accessed at each level into a set of relevant objects to recommend to the user.

Machine learningNatural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 16/9537G06F 16/24578G06F 16/29G06F 16/9535G06F 16/9536G06Q 10/40H04L 67/02H04L 67/306+1 more

AI classification

Knowledge representation1.00
Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning0.85
AI hardware0.62
Vision0.04
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

FACEBOOK, INC.

assignment · 352850613

Assignors

GREEN, BRADLEY RAY, WONG, JAMES WAH HOU, YAO, JINYI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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