US 11,720,608 B2
Method and apparatus for aggregating and presenting data associated with geographic locations
Mark Boyns, Alpine, CA (US); Chandrakant Mehta, Cupertino, CA (US); Jeffrey Tsay, San Marcos, CA (US); and Gridhar Mandyam, San Diego, CA (US)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 2, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/165,879.
Application 17/165,879 is a continuation of application No. 15/385,539, filed on Dec. 20, 2016, granted, now 10,942,950.
Application 15/385,539 is a continuation of application No. 12/470,475, filed on May 21, 2009, granted, now 9,646,025, issued on May 9, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/056,406, filed on May 27, 2008.
Prior Publication US 2021/0157828 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. G06F 16/30 (2019.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/18 (2009.01); H04L 67/50 (2022.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01)
CPC G06F 16/29 (2019.01) [H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/535 (2022.05); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/185 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of operating a mobile device, comprising:
displaying a plurality of categories of recommendations, the plurality of categories of recommendations being based on a regional profile of a geographic region, the regional profile including a set of points of interest within the geographic region, wherein the plurality of categories of recommendations is different for a first geographic region of a plurality of geographic regions compared to a second geographic region of the plurality of geographic regions;
obtaining a selection of a category of the plurality of categories of recommendations;
displaying, responsive to the obtained category of the plurality of categories of recommendations, at least one recommended point of interest from the set of points of interest via a user interface of the mobile device, wherein the at least one recommended point of interest is displayed based on at least user ratings of the set of points of interest within the geographic region, including the at least one recommended point of interest;
obtaining a selection of a point of interest from among the displayed at least one recommended point of interest; and
displaying user-uploaded content associated with the selected point of interest via the user interface of the mobile device, the user-uploaded content subject to privacy controls associated with a set of users that provided the user-uploaded content, wherein the privacy controls comprise one or more privacy controls permitting sharing by at least one user of the set of users that provided the user-uploaded content, and wherein the privacy controls comprise one or more privacy controls related to a display of temporal behavior patterns rather than actual locations of the at least one user.