Patent Document ID: 8595317
Application ID: 13619888

Base Claim:
1. A method for generating and communicating a geofeed having social media content that is aggregated from a plurality of social media content providers that obtain the social media content from users and provide the social media content to others, the method being implemented in a computer that includes one or more processors, the method comprising: receiving, by the one or more processors, a request comprising geofeed parameters that comprise a specification of one or more geographically definable locations and at least one filter parameter; generating, by the one or more processors, a geofeed definition comprising the geofeed parameters; identifying, by the one or more processors, a user-selectable plurality of social media content providers; generating, by the one or more processors, a plurality of formatted requests each to be communicated to an application programming interface associated with a corresponding one of the user-selectable plurality of social media content providers, each formatted request being generated based on the geofeed definition and a format used by the corresponding one of the user-selectable plurality of social media content providers; communicating, by the one or more processors, the plurality of formatted requests to the application programming interface associated with the corresponding ones of the user-selectable plurality of social media content providers; receiving, by the one or more processors, a respective set of results from the user-selectable plurality of social media content providers, each respective set of results comprising social media content that satisfies at least a portion of the geofeed definition; aggregating, by the one or more processors, the social media content from the respective set of results received from the user-selectable plurality of social media content providers; and communicating, by the one or more processors, the aggregated social media content via a plurality of manipulable views of the aggregated social media content.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the geofeed parameters further comprise at least one sort parameter, the method further comprising: sorting, by the one or more processors, the received social media content based on the at least one sort parameter.