Granted Patent B2

US 12,287,838 · App. 18/403,601 · Granted Apr 29, 2025

Inventors: Roger Henry Castillo (Palo Alto, CA); Thomas Jack (Austin, TX)

Assignee: BYTEDANCE INC.

G06F16/9537G06F16/22G06F16/248G06F16/285G06F16/29G06F16/58

Abstract

Claims (67)

1. An apparatus comprising one or more non-transitory storage media and one or more processors that configure the apparatus to:

responsive to receiving an invocation input to open a mobile application associated with a computing device, determine, using a GPS, a GPS location;

responsive to determining the GPS location, query a content index to identify local content based at least in part on the GPS location, a current time, and an editing target, wherein the editing target specifies a number of articles;

determine an article density of an area associated with the GPS location;

determine that the article density fails to meet a predefined threshold density;

update one or more content streams associated with the GPS location in order to maintain the editing target;

responsive to determining that the editing target has not been satisfied based at least in part on the query, traverse a place hierarchy to determine a larger geographic area in which to meet the editing target, the larger geographic area containing the GPS location;

execute a modified query in accordance with the larger geographic area to identify results from the content index;

cause display of the results, via an interface of the computing device;

responsive to determining that the article density meets the predefined threshold density, adjust the editing target to reflect available content;

select at least a portion of the articles based on a relevancy determination associated with the articles;

generate an article interface component, wherein the article interface component comprises a visual representation of the area associated with the GPS location and one or more visual indicators, each visual indicator corresponding to one of the selected articles, wherein each of the one or more visual indicators are positioned within the visual representation based on a location associated with a corresponding article; and

cause the article interface component to be displayed via the interface of the computing device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , further configured to:

rank the results based on both a euclidean distance and whether the local content is located inside a place boundary.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , further configured to:

filter the results by applying Boolean negation to additional place references within the local content.

4. The apparatus of claim 1 , further configured to:

receive a keyword, wherein the query further comprises the keyword.

5. The apparatus of claim 1 , further configured to:

categorize the local content; and

identify user interaction with categorized local content to augment the categorization of the local content.

6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the one or more visual indicators are configured based at least in part on the relevancy determination.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , further configured to:

generating, using an indexing engine, the content index.

8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

responsive to receiving an invocation input to open a mobile application associated with a computing device, determining, using a GPS, a GPS location;

responsive to determining the GPS location, querying a content index to identify local content based at least in part on the GPS location, a current time, and an editing target, wherein the editing target specifies a number of articles;

determining an article density of an area associated with the GPS location;

determining that the article density fails to meet a predefined threshold density;

updating one or more content streams associated with the GPS location in order to maintain the editing target;

responsive to determining that the editing target has not been satisfied based at least in part on the query, traversing a place hierarchy to determine a larger geographic area in which to meet the editing target, the larger geographic area containing the GPS location;

executing a modified query in accordance with the larger geographic area to identify results from the content index;

causing display of the results, via an interface of the computing device;

responsive to determining that the article density meets the predefined threshold density, adjusting the editing target to reflect available content;

select at least a portion of the articles based on a relevancy determination associated with the articles;

generating an article interface component, wherein the article interface component comprises a visual representation of the area associated with the GPS location and one or more visual indicators, each visual indicator corresponding to one of the selected articles, wherein each of the one or more visual indicators are positioned within the visual representation based on a location associated with a corresponding article; and

causing the article interface component to be displayed via the interface of the computing device.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising:

ranking the results based on both a euclidean distance and whether the local content is located inside a place boundary.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising:

filtering the results by applying Boolean negation to additional place references within the local content.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising:

receiving a keyword, wherein the query further comprises the keyword.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 8 , further comprising:

categorizing the local content; and

identifying user interaction with categorized local content to augment the categorization of the local content.

13. At least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code instructions stored therein, that, when executed by one or more processors cause the one or more processors to:

responsive to receiving an invocation input to open a mobile application associated with a computing device, determine, using a GPS, a GPS location;

responsive to determining the GPS location, query a content index to identify local content based at least in part on the GPS location, a current time, and an editing target, wherein the editing target specifies a number of articles;

determine an article density of an area associated with the GPS location;

determine that the article density fails to meet a predefined threshold density;

update one or more content streams associated with the GPS location in order to maintain the editing target

responsive to determining that the editing target has not been satisfied based at least in part on the query, traverse a place hierarchy to determine a larger geographic area in which to meet the editing target, the larger geographic area containing the GPS location;

execute a modified query in accordance with the larger geographic area to identify results from the content index;

cause display of the results, via an interface of the computing device;

responsive to determining that the article density meets the predefined threshold density, adjust the editing target to reflect available content;

select at least a portion of the articles based on a relevancy determination associated with the articles;

generate an article interface component, wherein the article interface component comprises a visual representation of the area associated with the GPS location and one or more visual indicators, each visual indicator corresponding to one of the selected articles, wherein each of the one or more visual indicators are positioned within the visual representation based on a location associated with a corresponding article; and

cause the article interface component to be displayed via the interface of the computing device.

14. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further caused to:

rank the results based on both a euclidean distance and whether the local content is located inside a place boundary.

15. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further caused to:

receive a keyword, wherein the query further comprises the keyword.

16. The at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 13 , wherein the one or more processors are further caused to:

categorize the local content; and

identify user interaction with categorized local content to augment the categorization of the local content.

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