SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DIFFERENTIALLY PROCESSING A LOCATION INPUT FOR CONTENT PROVIDERS THAT USE DIFFERENT LOCATION INPUT FORMATS

摘要

The disclosure relates to systems and methods for processing a location input that specifies one or more geographically definable locations for input to individual ones of a plurality of social media or other content providers that have different input formats for specifying locations. A geo-location input may be normalized to an input format that conforms to a particular content provider, which may use a format for the geo-location input that is different that a format used by another content provider. The formatted geo-location input may be communicated to the particular content provider to obtain content from the content provider. The formatting may result in artifacts such as over-inclusive results having excess content and/or under-inclusive results that omit content that should have been provided. The obtained content obtained may corrected based on a determination of whether the content is over-inclusive and/or under-inclusive by removing obtained content and/or adding new content.

主权项

1. A method for processing geo-location input to be used to obtain content from a plurality of social media content providers, the method being implemented in a computer that includes one or more physical processors configured to execute one or more computer program instructions, the method comprising:
obtaining, by the computer, a geo-location input comprising a specification of one or more geographically definable locations, wherein the geo-location input comprises a map input shaped as a polygon and is to be used to obtain content from one or more of a plurality of content providers individually having a particular format for the geo-location input, the plurality of content providers comprising at least a first content provider having a first format that requires a point and radius input; identifying, by the computer, a centroid and a corner of the polygon; determining, by the computer, a center of a circle based on the centroid and a radius of the circle based on the corner; generating, by the computer, a formatted geo-location input, which is formatted in accordance with the first format, based on the center and the radius; and causing, by the computer, the formatted geo-location input to be communicated to the particular one of the plurality of content providers.