Patent ID: 11914662
Assignee: GROUPON, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, the computer-executable program code instructions comprising program code instructions for:
receiving input, at an interface of a global positioning system (GPS) enabled mobile device, to open a mobile application, the mobile application comprising client software configured to access a client system;
without any additional input, accessing a location service of the GPS enabled mobile device to determine a GPS location;
without any additional input, accessing a current time;
without any additional input, automatically generating a query, the query comprising the GPS location and the current time;
based at least in part on executing the query on a content index, identifying local content in accordance with a location associated with the GPS location for the current time, in accordance with an editing target, wherein the editing target specifies a number of articles;
determining whether the editing target has been met;
upon determining that the number of articles specified by the editing target has not been met, climbing, by an editing algorithm, a place hierarchy to determine a larger geographic area in which to meet the editing target, the larger geographic area containing the location;
executing a modified query in accordance with the larger geographic area to identify results from the content index; and
displaying the results, via an interface, on the GPS enabled mobile device.