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Venue link detection for social media messages

US10318884B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 25, 2015
Grant dateJun 11, 2019
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Expiry dateNov 4, 2037

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L51/52
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method associates social media messages with venues. A social network graph includes users, messages from users, and venues. The venues include multiple primary venues and a no-venue. A link between a message and the no-venue node indicates that the message is not associated with a primary venue. Training feature vectors are constructed that measure connectedness between messages and venues. The process trains a classifier to estimate probabilities that messages are associated with venues. A new social media message is received, and the process constructs a feature vector using the same features as the training vectors, measuring connectedness between the new message and the no-venue. The classifier computes a probability that the new message is associated with the no-venue. When the probability exceeds a predefined threshold, the new message is not associated with any of the primary venues. Otherwise, the new message is associated with one of the primary venues.

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