Patent ID: 9514197
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A system, comprising: a data mining module, executable by a hardware processor, configured to mine images in non-text social media content from a social networking server, the social networking server being a server which allows users to post updates of activities and include audio recorded at the activities; a database storing location information; a content recognition module configured to identify one or more items within images in the non-text social media content, by performing image recognition on the images to match visual representations of the one or more images within the non-text social media content to visual representations stored in a database of items, the database of items containing identification information about the one or more items, to identify location in which the social media content was generated, and to store the identification information about the identified one or more items from the database of items, in another database, in a manner that ties the identification information to a database entry for the location, the content recognition module extracting background sounds from the audio, converting the background sounds to a waveform, comparing the waveform to a database of known waveforms to analyze and classify the background sounds, and storing the classification of the background sounds in the another database in a manner that ties the classification of the background sounds to the database entry for the location; and a query module configured to receive a query regarding the one or more items from a user device and to return results to the user device, the results including additional information, other than the identification information about the identified one or more items, tied to the database entry pertaining to the location.