REGIONAL-LEVEL REPRESENTATION OF USER LOCATION ON SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM

• Main Authors: BRODY JONATHAN, LIN ANDREW, AMITAY DANIEL, GORKIN LEONID, SPIEGEL EVAN, LIN WALTON, GARCIA TIMOTHY
• Format: Patent
• Language: Chinese; English
• Published: 31.03.2020
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

A social media platform provides a map-based graphical user interface (GUI) for accessing social media content submitted to a social media platform supported by the map-based GUI. User icons are displayed on a map of the GUI to represent locations of friend users. The locations of at least some users are represented by their user icons at a regional granularity, such that the displayed locations that are different from their accurate locations, but that are located within an accurate geographical region such as a city or a town. Users can select the granularity level at which their icons are displayed to others. 社交媒体平台提供了基于地图的图形用户界面(GUI)，用于访问提交给由基于地图的GUI支持的社交媒体平台的社交媒体内容。用户图标显示在GUI的地图上，以表示朋友用户的位置。至少一些用户的位置由其用户图标以区域粒度表示，使得所显示的位置不同于其准确位置，但是位于诸如城市或城镇的准确地理区域内。用户可以选择将其图标显示给其他人的粒度级别。