{
  "patent_number": "US 8700540",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How Eventbrite Recommends Events Based on Your Social Network",
  "original_title": "Social event recommendations",
  "summary": "A system that suggests events to you by analyzing your social media connections and your past attendance history to see what your friends are doing.",
  "what_it_does": "This patent describes a method for an event management system to suggest events to a user by pulling data from an external social network. It creates an internal map of the user's connections and looks at their event history to score how important those connections are. The system then ranks available events by combining this social data with specific event details like cost, location, and type. For example, if three of your close friends are attending a concert, the system uses this patent's logic to rank that concert higher on your personalized recommendation list.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Does not cover recommendations based solely on a user's own past behavior without considering social network data.",
    "Does not cover systems that recommend events based on global popularity or trending lists rather than specific social connections.",
    "Does not cover the actual mechanism of how a third-party social network stores or manages its own social graph data.",
    "Does not cover offline or non-digital methods of event discovery or social networking."
  ],
  "filed": "2010-11-29",
  "granted": "2014-04-15",
  "expires": null,
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "Eventbrite Inc",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/eventbrite-inc",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Luke O'Daniel Groesbeck",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/luke-odaniel-groesbeck"
    },
    {
      "name": "Brian Richard Zambrano",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/brian-richard-zambrano"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 51,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software",
    "ecommerce"
  ],
  "abstract": "In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a plurality of event listings, accessing event information associated with the event listings, accessing social network information associated with a particular user, and ranking the event listings for the particular user based at least in part on the social network information and event information.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8700540/facebook-messenger",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/8700540/facebook-messenger/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US8700540",
  "relatedPatents": []
}