Patent ID: 11935082
Assignee: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
retrieving, from a database, venue check-in data indicative of a physical presence of venue visitors at a plurality of venues and location data indicative of a geographic location of the venues;
calculating a spatial proximity between pairs of the venues;
determining, based on the venue check-in data, one or more groups of venue visitors that have visited one or more common venues;
calculating a social similarity score between pairs of venues, the social similarity score based, at least in part, on the determination that one or more groups of venue visitors have visited one or more common venues;
calculating an affinity score between the venues in the pairs of venues, the affinity score based on the social similarity score for the pair of venues and the spatial proximity between the venues in the pair; and
identifying a neighborhood cluster of venues based on the affinity scores.