Patent ID: 7743081
Filing Date: 2010-06-22
Classification: G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing recommendations of leisure activities to a user, wherein the computer comprises a processor, the method comprising: receiving an activity type and a nearness metric; identifying a cell stored in a spatial database based on location information associated with a computing device of the user, wherein the spatial database stores leisure activities corresponding to geographically segmented cells; wherein the spatial database stores a number of cells, and the number of cells in the spatial database depends on the density of leisure activities in a given geographic area and the type of leisure activity; determining a set of nearby cells based on the identified cell and a bound corresponding to the nearness metric; retrieving leisure activities that match the activity type and are associated with the nearby cells; and returning the set-of-retrieved leisure activities to the user.