Patent ID: 9418482
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G01C,G06F,G06Q,G06T

Claim Text:
1. A method for identifying visited travel destinations from a set of digital images associated with users of a social networking system, the method comprising: providing, by one or more computing devices, access to an individual user's account, including the individual user and other users affiliated with the individual user via the social networking system; receiving, by the one or more computing devices, one or more digital images from a computing device associated with the individual user and from one or more second computing devices associated with the other users of the social networking system; determining, by the one or more computing devices, from each digital image, a geo-location for each digital image; computing a user travel score for a user of the social networking system who is either the individual user or affiliated with the individual user from the geo-located images from the user of the social networking system, wherein the user travel score is computed by: displaying, by the one or more computing devices, each geo-located image on a map at a position corresponding to the determined geo-location for the geo-located image and the user travel score.