System and method for providing recommendations with a location-based service

摘要

A mobile application is provided that provides intelligent recommendations based on the knowledge of where the user has been, and what venues the user would like to visit. Further, such an application may be capable of determining where people in a user's social network have been and what venue locations these related users would like to visit. Also, in another implementation, the application may be capable of determining where people with similar taste have been, and where they would like to go. Some or all of this information may be used by a mobile application that provides recommendations to a user. For instance, in one implementation, a user having a mobile device such as a cell phone wishes to locate a venue based on one or more parameters, and some or all of this information may be used to order to rank recommendations with the interface.

主权项

1. A system for providing data in a distributed communications network, the system comprising:
a component for determining a result set of venue locations based on a provided query; and a component for determining a respective score based on at least one of the group of venue information comprising:
personal information associated with a user;social network information relating to one or more of the venue locations; andpopularity information identifying a popularity of the one or more venue locations.