SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A SOCIAL FACILITATOR SERVICE

摘要

Systems and methods for providing social event recommendations to a user are provided. In particular, a user may be presented with recommendations for social events based on the user's interests, geographic location, or any other suitable constraints. A social event recommendation engine may additionally suggest friends, from the user's social network, that the user may wish to invite along to a recommended social event. The user may also be presented advertisements with the social event recommendations.

主权项

1. A method for recommending a social event to a user, the method comprising:
storing in a memory:
a user profile including characteristics of the user's interests, anda plurality of social events; selecting, using a processor, a characteristic of the user's interests from the user profile; cross-referencing a social event characteristic associated with respective ones of the plurality of events with the selected user characteristic; selecting the social event associated with the social event characteristic that matches the selected user characteristic; selecting, using the processor, a subset of friends of the user, wherein each of the friends in the subset of the friends has a user profile characteristic matching the social event characteristic; and recommending the selected social event to the user and the selected subset of the friends.