Patent ID: 9244930
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L

Claim Text:
1. A computer-implemented method for geotagging hashtags, the method comprising: determining, with one or more computing devices, geographic location information related to a hashtag; assigning, with the one or more computing devices, a plurality of geolocations to the hashtag based on the determined geographic location information; storing, with the one or more computing devices, the plurality of geolocations in a vector associated with the hashtag; determining, with the one or more computing devices, a centroid of the plurality of geolocations; assigning, with the one or more computing devices, the determined centroid as a primary geolocation associated with the hashtag storing, with the one or more computing devices, the assigned primary geolocation in association with the hashtag in a data store; and providing, with the one or more computing devices, the hashtag for display to a user in response to a geographic user query based on the assigned primary geolocation stored in the data store.