Patent ID: 8315953

Claim:
A method for generating places of interests (POIs) from a social network, the method comprising: providing a social network that includes at least 10,000 unique users, each user having a social network user account, wherein a portion of the unique users are friends on the social network and have access to friend social network information; for each of at least 10,000 of the unique users creating a plurality of POI entries using a user input interface, wherein each of the plurality of POIs is created by: obtaining a location of a particular POI having a name or being of a type of POI; receiving from the particular user a particular activity that can be performed at the particular POI, wherein the name or type of POI is non-descriptive of the particular activity; generating an activity term from the particular activity received from the user; and storing the activity term with the location of the particular POI in a relational database; for each of at least a portion of the plurality of the POI entries, receiving a plurality of different activity terms from different unique social network users, wherein the different activity terms describe a same activity; and for each the portion of the POI entries, grouping the plurality of different activity terms in the respective POI entry.