System and method of selecting events or locations based on content

摘要

Systems and methods of returning location and/or event results using information social media content are provided. One or more social networking servers are accessed to retrieve social media content. One or more items within the social media content are then identified. These items may then be categorized. Information about the categories of the one or more items are stored in a database storing information about locations or events. A search query for a location or event may be received, and results for the search query may be selected by accessing the database and utilizing the information about locations or events as well as the information about the categories of the one or more items. The results may then be returned to a user device for display.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a data mining module, executable by a hardware processor, configured to mine images in non-text social media content from a social networking server, the social networking server being a server which allows users to post updates of activities and include audio recorded at the activities; a database storing location information; a content recognition module configured to identify one or more items within images in the non-text social media content, by performing image recognition on the images to match visual representations of the one or more images within the non-text social media content to visual representations stored in a database of items, the database of items containing identification information about the one or more items, to identify location in which the social media content was generated, and to store the identification information about the identified one or more items from the database of items, in another database, in a manner that ties the identification information to a database entry for the location, the content recognition module extracting background sounds from the audio, converting the background sounds to a waveform, comparing the waveform to a database of known waveforms to analyze and classify the background sounds, and storing the classification of the background sounds in the another database in a manner that ties the classification of the background sounds to the database entry for the location; and a query module configured to receive a query regarding the one or more items from a user device and to return results to the user device, the results including additional information, other than the identification information about the identified one or more items, tied to the database entry pertaining to the location.