Patent ID: 8989782
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computerized method for determining, for a plurality of individuals having a common interest, locations relevant to that common interest, each individual in the plurality possessing a user terminal that has a location, the method comprising: in a first computer process, receiving search parameters pertaining to the common interest via a data communication network from a given user terminal possessed by an individual in the plurality; in a second computer process, determining a collection of locations that provide goods or services satisfying the search parameters as a function of the locations of the user terminals possessed by the plurality of individuals; in a third computer process, identifying clusters of locations in the collection of locations; in a fourth computer process, providing a cluster score to each cluster based at least on the proximity from the cluster to the locations of the user terminals; and in a fifth computer process, transmitting, toward the given user terminal via the data communication network, data indicating the clusters according to their relative cluster scores.