Patent ID: 9223866
Filing Date: 2015-12-29
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, via a first data processing system hosting a social network site, a tag from a member of the social network site, the member associating the tag with a favorite of the member on the social network site; processing tag data obtained from the tag, by a second data processing system, the second data processing system hosting a searching service comprising an information database available for searching by a user of the searching service, the information database comprising business directory information about a plurality of businesses; augmenting, by the second data processing system, the business directory information with the tag data; associating, by the second data processing system, one or more respective business or service categories with each member of the social network site based at least in part on respective tag data for each member of the social network site; and determining a relevancy, via the second data processing system, of the tag data relative to a search request received by the second data processing system from the user, such that the tag data is correlated to the search request to provide a response to the search request to the user, wherein the search request corresponds to business criteria and a location, and the determining comprises: transmitting to the first data processing system a question directed to at least one of one or more members of the set of members of the social network site, wherein the question formed is related to at least one of the one or more businesses and at least one of the one or more associated business or service categories.