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20100082611 | Trajectory Data Surfacing System: Surfacing Useful and Relevant Entity Annotations - Multiple entities are tracked over periods of time and information concerning these entities are collected. For each entity, the entities associated with the entity and the types of associations are determined. One or more entities of interest is/are identified. Different weights are assigned to the entities on the trajectories connecting with the entity or entities of interest based on their associations with the entity or entities of interest and their positions on the trajectories. Selected entities are ranked and surfaced based on their total weights for the entity or entities of interest. | 04-01-2010 |
20100082612 | DETERMINING RELEVANCE BETWEEN AN IMAGE AND ITS LOCATION - Method for determining a relevance between an image and information pertaining to the image, including receiving information about a geographical region, displaying the image related to the geographical region, receiving an estimated location information of the image, and determining the relevance between the image and the information based on the estimated location information. | 04-01-2010 |
20100131501 | Providing Geocoded Targeted Web Content - A system and method are disclosed for providing geocoded web content to a user based on a specific geographic location specified by the user. A determination module receives a geographic location from the user and determines latitude and longitude coordinates associated with the geographic location from a geographic information database. The determination module further determines a geographic boundary associated with the latitude and longitude coordinates based at least in part on an area of interest surrounding the geographic location. A web content search module determines web content comprising substance associated with a location within the geographic boundary. A front end interface transmits the determined web content for display in an order based at least in part on distance from the location associated with the web content to the geographic location. | 05-27-2010 |
20100145936 | PERSONAL INFORMATION MAPS - An interactive visual interface for organizing, locating, searching, and monitoring collections of digital information, designed to harness human spatial memory for organizing and retrieving digital information. In one example, an information map organizes digital information within a two-dimensional space with rapid visual feedback and information access. The organization may be algorithmically computed and user-modified. An interface that supports persistent state information whereby search nodes and document references are spatially fixed so that users may harness their spatial memory to organize and find information quickly. | 06-10-2010 |
20100185609 | System and method for applying Link Analysis Tools for Visualizing Connected Temporal and Spatial Information on a User Interface - A system and method for analyzing a plurality of data elements having both temporal and spatial properties, where a first data element and a second data element of the plurality of data elements are linked by at least one association element. The system and method include selecting the first data element from the plurality of data elements and providing at least one search criteria for use in analyzing the properties of the plurality of data elements with respect to at least one property of the first data element. An analysis module is used to apply the at least one search criteria to the properties of the plurality of data elements for identifying the second data element from the plurality of data elements and the corresponding at least one association element. The at least one association element is configured for representing a connection between the first data element and the second data element, such that the connection has a first property common to a property of the first data element and a second property common to a property of the second data element. A visualization module is used to generate a visual representation of the first and second data elements and the association element configured for display on a user interface for subsequent interaction with user events. The visual representation includes a spatial domain including a reference surface for providing a spatial reference frame having at least two spatial dimensions and a temporal domain operatively coupled to the spatial domain for providing a common temporal reference frame for locations of interest in the spatial domain. | 07-22-2010 |
20100211566 | ENTITY-BASED SEARCH RESULTS AND CLUSTERS ON MAPS - Techniques are described for providing geographically-related search results in map interfaces that are derived with an understanding of the intent behind the user's query, and the abstract entities to which the query maps. | 08-19-2010 |
20100241623 | USER GENERATED NOTES INTEGRATED WITH LOCATION-BASED APPLICATION - A system and method are disclosed for displaying geographically and/or temporally relevant multimedia notes on a mobile client device. The user creates a multimedia note through the mobile client device and transmits the note to the server. The server publishes the note and when the note becomes geographically and/or temporally relevant for other users, the server transmits the note to mobile client devices of those users. The server also tracks the route of a mobile client device and generates a web presentation with the tracked route including the multimedia notes embedded in various locations of the route. | 09-23-2010 |
20100268707 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RANKING SEARCH RESULTS USING CLICK DISTANCE - Search results of a search query on a network are ranked according to an additional click distance property associated with each of the documents on the network. The click distance is measurement of the number clicks or user navigations from a page or pages on the network designated as highest authority or root pages on the network. The precision of the results is increased by the addition of the click distance term when the site or intranet where the search query takes place is hierarchically structured. | 10-21-2010 |
20100332468 | Spatial search engine support of virtual earth visualization system - A search engine enabling search criteria to be defined within a Virtual Earth visualization system. The search criteria can be entered directly as a “region-of-interest” and together with a number of optional text-based search criteria that are combined to become a spatial database query which is subsequently submitted to a spatial database whereby the search results are returned to the search client, for display directly into the Virtual Earth visualization system. | 12-30-2010 |
20110010364 | GEOGRAPHICAL ITEM IDENTIFICATION - A location database is maintained with information regarding each of a number of different geographical items in different locations. A user database is also maintained with user records for various users, each user record comprising the user's identification data. In addition, in at least one of the location database and the user database, an identification is maintained of different geographical items which each user has visited. Geographical-item-to-geographical-item similarities are defined between different geographical items based on the user database. User-to-user similarities between the users are defined based on the user database. A weighted combination of the defined geographical-item-to-geographical-item and user-to-user similarities is computed and particularly relevant geographical items in a given location are identified to a user based on the weighted combination. | 01-13-2011 |
20110078139 | Travelogue locating mining for travel suggestion - A location extraction component analyzes a set of travelogues to identify all of the locations mentioned therein. A co-occurrence extraction component computes co-occurrence values for the identified locations. When the identity of a specified location is received, suggested locations for the specified location are identified through the use of the co-occurrence values. A map is displayed that encompasses an area including the specified location and the suggested locations. The map might include indicators for the specified location and for each of the suggested locations. Attributes of the indicators, such as their size or color, can be modified based upon the co-occurrence value associated with the corresponding suggested location. | 03-31-2011 |
20110093458 | RECOMMENDING POINTS OF INTERESTS IN A REGION - Techniques for searching and providing geographical regions are described. The process searches and recommends points of interests based on a user-specified region. Points of interests include spatial objects (e.g., buildings, landmarks, rivers, parks) and their distributions in a geographical region. The process searches and recommends points of interests by partitioning a spatial map into grids to identify representative categories located in each of the grids. In response to the user-specified region, a set of geographical candidates containing the representative categories is retrieved. The process determines whether the user-specified region and the set of geographical candidates include similar or common representative categories and similar or common spatial distributions of the representative categories. Then the process provides the top ranked set of geographical candidates that have similar content information. | 04-21-2011 |
20110131203 | Determining Website Relevancy at the Time of Asset Usage using Location Based Services - An embodiment of the invention includes a method for searching for mobile assets in accordance with location. A monitoring module monitors usage of assets in a plurality of mobile devices to identify assets used in different locations. For each usage of an asset, the monitoring module identifies the location of the mobile device utilizing the asset via a global positioning system. A search query for a requested asset is received from a requesting mobile device. The location of the requesting mobile device is identified. Assets that are used in the location of the requesting mobile device are identified based on the monitoring of the usage of assets. Results of the search query are weighed by assigning higher rankings to the assets used in the location of the requesting mobile device. The results of the search query are sent to the requesting mobile device and/or an interface. | 06-02-2011 |
20110184945 | LOCATION AWARE RECOMMENDATION ENGINE - The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a location aware recommendation engine. In response to a recommendation request, relevant recommendations may be ranked based on the current location of a user, location associated with an entity, and/or accessibility criteria. | 07-28-2011 |
20110218992 | RELEVANCY RANKING FOR MAP-RELATED SEARCH - The following relates to ranking search results consisting of locations or recommending locations to visit based on recorded data representing visits by a plurality of users to the locations represented as search results or recommended locations to visit. The data representing users' visits can be recorded by receiving data anonymously reported by handheld communication devices carried by the plurality of users. A handheld communication device, which is carried by a user, can report to the system the user's present location optionally associated with a time stamp. The handheld communication device can report either a single location coordinate or a collection of coordinates gathered over time. | 09-08-2011 |
20110225151 | METHODS, DEVICES, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS FOR CLASSIFYING DIGITAL MEDIA FILES BASED ON ASSOCIATED GEOGRAPHICAL IDENTIFICATION METADATA - A method for classifying digital media files includes obtaining geographical information from geographical identification metadata associated with one or more digital media files stored in a memory of a mobile terminal, and assigning a respective ranking to the one or more digital media files within one or more media classification categories based on the obtained geographical information. A summary view of the one or more ranked digital media files is displayed, the summary view including two axes, each axis corresponding to at least one of the one or more media classification categories. A travel profile for a user of the mobile terminal, including the user's travel preferences as determined by the respective ranking of at least one ranked digital media file in one or more of the media classification categories, is generated, and relevant travel information is presented to the user. Related devices and computer program products are also discussed. | 09-15-2011 |
20110238659 | TWO-PASS SEARCHING FOR IMAGE SIMILARITY OF DIGESTS OF IMAGE-BASED LISTINGS IN A NETWORK-BASED PUBLICATION SYSTEM - Using a processor, receiving, a query including a query image. A database is searched for a set of images similar to the query image, using a two-pass search. The results of the searching are then provided, the results including image members of the set of images similar to the query image. The first pass may be performed using a TF-IDF algorithm and the second pass ranks a predetermined number of results from the first pass by a best match algorithm or other type of algorithm. The type of second pass algorithm may be selectable by a user. If an end signal is not detected, a further two-pass search may be made based on a subsequent query having a subsequent query image. The subsequent query image may one of the results of the previous two pass search. A subsequent query image may change from an image of a product of a first product category to an image of a product of a second product category. | 09-29-2011 |
20110246456 | DYNAMIC RERANKING OF SEARCH RESULTS BASED UPON SOURCE AUTHORITY - Concepts and technologies are described herein for dynamically reranking search results based upon source authority. A search query is received and analyzed. One or more topics are identified in the search query. An authority index is searched to identify authoritative sources for content relating to the identified topic(s). Promoted results corresponding to content generated by the authoritative sources relating to the identified topics are obtained. The promoted results can be presented to an entity requesting the search, or injected into search results. Contribution dimensions associated with the promoted results can be determined, and filters based upon the contribution dimensions can be generated and used by an entity to dynamically manipulate the search results. | 10-06-2011 |
20110264654 | Presentation of Local Results - A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes receiving from a remote device a search query, generating a local result set and one or more non-local result sets for the search query, determining a display location for the local result set relative to the non-local result set based on a position of the search query in a local relevance indicium. | 10-27-2011 |
20110276565 | Collaborative Location and Activity Recommendations - Techniques describe constructing a location and activity recommendation model to identify relationships between locations and activities. To construct the model, the process obtains global positioning system (GPS) logs of geographical locations collected over time and identifies stay points representing locations visited by an individual user. The process also identifies points of interest in a region using a database and correlates a relationship between activity to activity by submitting queries to a search engine. The information gathered is used to fill locations and activities in a location-activity matrix. Recommendations may be made for a location and/or activity when given a user query, based on a user's present geographical location, or a prediction of a user's interest. | 11-10-2011 |
20110276566 | Displaying Search Results - Website search results obtained from searching multiple electronic information stores may be displayed transparently without distinguishing the electronic information store. The search may be performed by a web host and may include receiving at least one search term that then is compared with first electronic information within a first electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the first electronic information includes content provided by an internal source. The search term also is compared with second electronic information within a second electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the second electronic information includes content provided by an external source. Results are displayed based on matches that are determined to exist with the first electronic information and the second electronic information. The results are combined in a single list of results. | 11-10-2011 |
20110295849 | INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, AND PROGRAM - Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus that presents, to a user who performs a search among a plurality of contents distributed over a search space formed using N, N is an integer greater than one, types of search axes, assistant information for assisting the user with the search. The apparatus includes: specification means for specifying a first range; range presentation means for presenting a state of distribution of contents within the first range, and presenting the state of the distribution of the contents within a second range; and narrowing-down axis presentation means for selecting, and presenting the narrowing-down axis candidate or candidates to the user. | 12-01-2011 |
20110302162 | Snippet Extraction and Ranking - Described herein is a technology that facilitates efficient automated mining of topic-related aspects of user-generated content based on automated analysis of the user-generated content. Locations are automatically learned based on dividing documents into document segments, and decomposing the segments into local topics and global topics. Techniques are described that facilitate automatically extracting snippets. These techniques include, for example, computer annotating travelogues with learned tags and images, performing topic learning to obtain an interest model, performing location matching based on the interest model, calculating geographic and semantic relevance scores, ranking snippets based on the geographic and semantic relevance scores, and searching snippets with a “location+context term” query. | 12-08-2011 |
20110307478 | GEOGRAPHICALLY LOCALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS IN A COMPUTING ADVICE FACILITY - The present disclosure provides a geographically localized recommendation to a user through a computer-based advice facility, comprising collecting a recommendation from an Internet source, wherein the recommendation is determined to have an interestingness aspect and a geographic location aspect, comparing the collected recommendation to a derived user taste and the user's current geographic location, determining at least one recommendation for the user based on processing on the comparison, and delivering at least one recommendation to a user's mobile communications device, wherein the user is enabled to at least one of view, save, and share the recommendation via an application at least in part resident on the computer-based advice facility. | 12-15-2011 |
20120016872 | METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR USE IN GENERATING AN ENCODED ROUTEABILITY GRAPH DESCRIPTION - Methods and apparatuses are provided that may be implemented in one or more electronic devices to generate an encoded routeability graph description corresponding to a diagram of a structure. The methods and apparatuses may, for example, implement a reduction process to reduce a number of grid points within an encoded routeability graph description, or which may be otherwise used to generate an encoded routeability graph description. | 01-19-2012 |
20120036124 | METHODS OF ACCESSING A NAVIGATION DATABASE - A navigation database comprises a first set of elements comprising airports, beacons and waypoints; a second set of elements comprising procedures; and a third set of elements comprising routes. The method comprises a step of creating a pair of indices comprising an index comprising the elements of the three sets; identifier, a type and a functional identifier; a first list of pointers to the memory address where the elements are stored; a pre-index comprising a list of code, each code corresponding to the first characters of each element, the codes being indexed by a family of attributes of elements; a second list of pointers to the identifier of the first element in the first index. | 02-09-2012 |
20120066219 | SYSTEM TO COMPILE LANDMARK IMAGE SEARCH RESULTS - This patent discloses a system to compile a landmark image search result. The system may determine a rank of each image within a visual cluster according to at least one of a low-level self-similarity score, a low-level discriminative modeling score, and a point wise linking score. The landmark image search result may be compiled as a function of the rank of each image. | 03-15-2012 |
20120072418 | TUNERSPHERE - Systems and methods for providing representative information for a geographic area of interest are disclosed. In one embodiment, a media service tracks media interaction histories (e.g., play histories) for a number of users registered with the media service, where each media interaction history identifies media items interacted with by the corresponding user as well as the locations at which at least a subset of the media items were interacted with by the corresponding user. The media service receives a request from a requesting user for representative information for a geographic area of interest. In response to receiving the request, the media service determines representative information for the geographic area of interest based on at least a subset of the media interaction histories of the users and effects presentation of the representative information to the requesting user. | 03-22-2012 |
20120095995 | User Interface Methods and Systems for Selecting and Presenting Content Based on User Navigation and Selection Actions Associated with the Content - A user-interface method of selecting and presenting a collection of content items based on user navigation and selection actions associated with the content is provided. The method includes associating a relevance weight on a per user basis with content items to indicate a relative measure of likelihood that the user desires the content item. The method includes receiving a user's navigation and selections actions for identifying desired content items, and in response, adjusting the associated relevance weight of the selected content item and group of content items containing the selected item. The method includes, in response to subsequent user input, selecting and presenting a subset of content items and content groups to the user ordered by the adjusted associated relevance weights assigned to the content items and content groups. | 04-19-2012 |
20120124039 | Online Search Based On Geography Tagged Recommendations - A respective submission is received from each of multiple recommending client network nodes ( | 05-17-2012 |
20120136855 | Mobile Query Suggestions With Time-Location Awareness - The techniques describe recommending mobile query suggestions by integrating time and location in response to a query input submitted on a mobile computing device. A process constructs a bipartite graph by extracting users that submitted queries from mobile search logs and associating time and location with the submitted queries. The process determines the users are similar having submitted similar queries at similar times and at similar locations. The process receives a query input associated with a current time and a current location of a mobile computing device. Next, the process computes a relatedness of candidate queries to the query input based on a similarity between the user groups having submitted both the candidate queries and the query input, and distances of times and locations at which the user previously issued the query input and the candidate queries. | 05-31-2012 |
20120143859 | REAL-TIME PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATION OF LOCATION-RELATED ENTITIES - A location-related entity ranking technique is described that allows a user see the ranking of location-related entities near a desired location in response to a query. The technique can leverage the searches performed by a community of mobile device users at a given location and at a given time to infer the location-related entities that are popular at this specific location and time window. The technique can also filter out or re-rank these location-related entities based on the personal preferences of the person that submits the query and group preferences of a group to which the user belongs. The personal preferences can also be context specific (i.e. different restaurant preferences for lunch and dinner times). | 06-07-2012 |
20120158712 | Inferring Geographic Locations for Entities Appearing in Search Queries - A server system associates one or more locations with a query by identifying the query, selecting a set of documents responsive to the query, and assigning weights to respective documents in the set of documents based, at least in part, on historical data of user clicks selecting search result links in search results produced for historical queries substantially the same as the identified query. Websites hosting the selected documents are identified, and, for each website, location-specific information for one or more locations is retrieved, including a location-specific score that corresponds to the likelihood that the respective location corresponds to a respective website. For each respective location for which location-specific information was retrieved, aggregating the location-specific scores, as weighted by the document weights, to compute an aggregated likelihood that the respective location is associated with the query. A specific location is assigned to the query when predefined criteria are satisfied. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166431 | AUGMENTATION OF PLACE RANKING USING 3D MODEL ACTIVITY IN AN AREA - Aspects of the invention relate generally to ranking geographic locations based on perceived user interest. More specifically, a database of three-dimensional models of buildings or other architectural features may be used to determine the level of user interest in a particular location and accordingly rank, for example, geographic locations or web or map search results with local intent. For example, various signals such as the number of models created by users for a particular location, the number of clicks or requests for the models of the particular location, the number of POIs contained within or associated with the models associated with the particular geographic location, number of categories associated with a model associated with the geographic location, number of embedded views or views of the models associated with the particular location on other web sites, and the age of the models associated with the particular geographic location. | 06-28-2012 |
20120197880 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND LOGIC FOR OPTIMIZED GEOSPATIAL DATA DELIVERY - A method may include subscribing each of a plurality of users to receive native-format geospatial information from a data source. The method may also include receiving native-format geospatial information from the data source. The method may further include analyzing native-format geospatial information and previously-rendered geospatial data file fragments to determine whether to update one or more previously-rendered geospatial data file fragments. The method may additionally include translating native-format geospatial information into geospatial data file fragments in response to a determination to update one or more previously-rendered geospatial data file fragments, and storing such geospatial data file fragments. | 08-02-2012 |
20120209836 | RESOLVING QUERIES BASED ON AUTOMATIC DETERMINATION OF REQUESTOR GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION - Resolving a query term includes receiving at least one query term from a requestor and determining a geographic location of the requestor. The geographic location of the requestor may be determined by accessing an electronic information store containing a requestor profile including geographic information about the requestor, where the requestor profile is used by more than one program. The query term is resolved against electronic information within at least one electronic information store to determine whether one or more matches exist and a result is generated that accounts for the geographic location of the requestor. | 08-16-2012 |
20120233158 | Automated Location Check-In for Geo-Social Networking System - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system determines a user's current location, generate a list of places near the user's current location, rank the list of places based on distance, relevancy and a configurable rule set, and automatically checks in the user at the top ranked place. | 09-13-2012 |
20120290569 | NAVIGATION DEVICE - Provided is a navigation device wherein when a first and a second character string are input (STEP | 11-15-2012 |
20120317104 | Using Aggregate Location Metadata to Provide a Personalized Service - Functionality is described herein which generates a plurality of item models based on the aggregate behavior of users, such as the aggregate behavior of the users in selecting network-accessible sites and/or issuing particular queries. In one implementation, each item model estimates a probabilistic distribution of locations for an individual, given that the individual selects a particular item (e.g., a particular site or query). The functionality can use the item models to provide a personalized service to an end user. For example, in one scenario, the functionality can generate a plurality of location-based features based on the item models. The functionality can then learn a ranking model based on the location-based features. In a real-time phase of operation, a query processing system uses the ranking model to personalize search results for an end user. | 12-13-2012 |
20130024447 | Ranking and Searching Method and Apparatus Based on Interpersonal Distances - The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for ranking and searching based on interpersonal distances. The method includes: obtaining, by a ranking server, objects queried by a query request based on the request initiated from a user client and obtaining reference user groups corresponding to the queried objects; obtaining, by a ranking server, an interpersonal distance between each user in the reference user groups and a user who initiates the query request, and obtaining rating scores of the objects queried by the request that are given by each user in respective reference user groups; determining, by a ranking server, user relationship ranking indices of the objects based on the interpersonal distances and the rating scores, and ordering the objects based on the user relationship ranking indices of the objects. Compared with the existing technologies, the example ranking server performs ranking based on interpersonal distances between a user and reference users as well as rating scores associated with the reference users, quantifies a reference value of choices associated with a social network of the user with respect to shopping choices of the user, and provides a ranking method that is based on characteristics of the user. | 01-24-2013 |
20130036113 | System and Method for Automatically Providing a Graphical Layout Based on an Example Graphic Layout - Methods and Systems for automatically providing a graphical layout based on an example graphic layout are disclosed. In general, a block boundary analysis is used to identify spatial characteristics of the example graphic layout and an actual content. A database is searched for one or more graphical templates having spatial characteristics that are similar to the spatial characteristics of the example graphic layout. A fit analysis with the spatial characteristics of the actual content is also performed on the graphical templates. The resulting graphical templates are ranked. At least one of the graphical templates in the ranking is automatically filled with the actual content and provided in place of the example graphic layout. | 02-07-2013 |
20130054584 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING SEARCH WITH CONTEXTUAL PROCESSING - An approach is provided for providing search with contextual processing. A contextual search platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of one or more data requests data to generate at least one query. The contextual search platform further determines one or more algorithms for bounding, at least in part, result data responsive to the one or more data requests, the at least one query, or a combination thereof. The contextual search platform also causes, at least in part, an association of the one or more algorithms with the at least one query. | 02-28-2013 |
20130054585 | GEOGRAPHIC SEARCH WITH MIXED-PRECISION RESULTS - Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to geographic searching. In aspects, a search term and a sort indication are received for performing a search. Location information regarding the search is also obtained. If the sort indication indicates that distance is to be used for the search results, a first set of actions is performed that avoids displaying low precision search results; otherwise, a second set of actions is performed that orders search results by a non-distance measure. | 02-28-2013 |
20130060767 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING AND BROWSING FOR DIRECTLY AND INDIRECTLY MATCHING MEDIA CONTENT - A method of searching for directly and indirectly matching media content in a metadata database is provided. Searching may include matching keywords in search criteria or using predefined search criteria for browsing of static or dynamic listings of media content. The method includes receiving a search request including search criteria, and searching the metadata database for a digital media selection matching the search criteria. A mapping of metadata of the media selection may be utilized to find a matching media article that directly or indirectly matches the search criteria. The method also includes determining availabilities of the matching media article and the matching media selection. A search result set with the matching media articles and matching media selections is provided, based on their availabilities. An associated content provider may be linked to the customer based on a subscription. The media selection may be accessed by an audio/visual display interface. | 03-07-2013 |
20130060768 | ORDERING OF SEARCH RESULTS BASED ON LANGUAGE AND/OR COUNTRY OF THE SEARCH RESULTS - A system and method for providing preferred language and/or country ordering of search results is described. A search query describing potentially retrievable information provided in a plurality of search result languages and/or countries is received. A search is executed by evaluating the search query against information characteristics maintained in a searchable data repository. At least one preferred language and/or country applicable to search results generated is dynamically determined responsive to the executed search. At least some of the search results are ordered in consideration of the at least one preferred language and/or country. | 03-07-2013 |
20130097162 | Method and system for generating and presenting search results that are based on location-based information from social networks, media, the internet, and/or actual on-site location - Method and system for generating and presenting search results that are based on location-based information from social networks, media, the internet, and/or actual on-site location. | 04-18-2013 |
20130110826 | METHOD FOR SEARCHING CONTACTS, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM USING THE METHOD THEREOF | 05-02-2013 |
20130151512 | Location Input Mistake Correction - A system for automatically correcting a mistaken geocoded location input. A wireless device such as a cell phone ranks possible location input based on edit distance, which is a ‘confidence factor’. If there is no perfect match, then a list of geocode options is returned, preferably sorted by the score. The ‘closeness’ is derived by looking at the edit distance to go from the input to the matched address. Edit distance is defined herein as the number of insertion/deletion/replacement operations to go from input location to the possible matched location. In one embodiment, an option list, or ‘pick list’, may be provided based on an edit distance scoring system. The edit distance scoring system is preferably based on a number of keystrokes difference between the input location name and the possible matched location name. | 06-13-2013 |
20130159295 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND RANKING NEWS SOURCES - A search engine and/or news aggregator considers events and stories described in electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users. | 06-20-2013 |
20130191378 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM WITH SERVER PROVIDING SEARCH FACTS AND RELATED METHODS - A wireless communication system may include a server, and a wireless communications device communicating with the server. The wireless communications device may include a processor, and an input device cooperating therewith to accept a search query. The server may provide search results to the wireless communications device based upon the search query from the wireless communications device. The search results may include a search fact associated with the search query. The server may generate the search fact based upon location data, and a motion value associated with the wireless communications device. | 07-25-2013 |
20130198176 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND PHOTO SEARCHING METHOD THEREOF - The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and a photo search method thereof capable of searching and displaying photos shared by the cloud and SNS systems in connection with a specific location on a camera view using augmented reality. To this end, according to the present disclosure, when a photo search function is selected on an augmented reality based camera view, photo information associated with at least one location on which the focus of the camera view is placed is searched from a network system to sort and display the searched photo information on the camera view, thereby allowing the user to conveniently search photos associated with old memories. | 08-01-2013 |
20130204868 | System and Method for Presenting Geolocated Relevance-Based Content - System and method for presenting geolocated relevance-based content. In one example, presence of a user is detected at a location. A plurality of search queries associated with the location are obtained. At least one search query is identified from the plurality of search queries based on information associated with the user. A search result is then generated based on the at least one identified search query to the user. | 08-08-2013 |
20130218879 | UPDATE SYSTEMS OF SPACE OF INTEREST DATA AND METHODS THEREOF - An aspect of the invention provides a system including: an SOI database that stores registered SOI data; a geographical information similarity determination module that determines if there is at least one set of registered SOI data whose geographical information is the same as or similar to that of the new SOI data by comparing the geographical information of the new SOI data and the geographical information of the registered SOI data; and an SOI database registration module that merges the registered SOI data of the SOI database with the geographical information or the non-geographical information of the new SOI data and stores the merged data in the SOI database if there is a set of registered SOI data whose geographical information is the same as or similar to that of the new SOI data as a result of determination of the geographical information similarity determination module. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218880 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A RECOMMENDED PRODUCT FROM A CUSTOMER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT SYSTEM - A method for providing recommended products from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving from a user system a message including a request for a product relevant to a customer affiliated with an enterprise, where the message also includes information identifying the customer, the enterprise, and/or a product purchased by the customer. The method also includes identifying suggested products based on information managed by the CRM system and related to the customer, the enterprise and/or the purchased product. A relevance score is determined for each of the suggested products based on relevance factors and social media influence factors, and recommended products are selected based on the relevance scores of the recommended products. Information identifying the recommended products is included in a response message that is transmitted to the user system. | 08-22-2013 |
20130218881 | System And Method For Identifying A Location Of Interest To Be Named By A User - A mobile communication device for identifying a location to be named comprising a position locator component configured to determine a location of a user and a communication interface component configured to provide the location for use in determining user-specific location information including at least one of a number of times and an amount of time the user is present at or near the location. The location naming component is configured to receive an identification of the location as a location of interest. The location naming component is configured to provide a prompt for naming the location of interest for presentation by a graphical user interface component in association with received suggested name information. The location naming component is configured to receive name information for naming the location. The graphical user interface component is configured to present the name information for the location of interest on the mobile communication device. | 08-22-2013 |
20130226915 | ORGANIZATION OF SEARCH RESULTS BASED UPON AVAILABILITY OF RESPECTIVE PROVIDERS COMPRISED THEREIN - One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for providing search results for presentation as a function of the availability of respective providers comprised in the search results. For example, a user may perform a search for local groceries stores and stores within a 5 miles geographic radius of the user may be identified and filtered/distinguished as a function of the availability of respective stores. Such availability may be a function of whether respective stores are open or closed at the time of the search, whether respective stores are expected to be open or closed at an estimated time of arrival (e.g., based upon travel time from the user's location at the time of the search to respective stores), and/or parking considerations (e.g., parking availability, type of parking, and/or parking cost) at respective stores. | 08-29-2013 |
20130246409 | TOPOGRAPHY BY POPULARITY - Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to photographs and is a form of geospatial metadata. The current invention presents a method for determining the popularity/attractiveness of certain geographical areas by calculating the densities of the available photographs (or availability of photographs) with geodata corresponding to these geographical areas. | 09-19-2013 |
20130246410 | SERVER, INFORMATION-MANAGEMENT METHOD, INFORMATION-MANAGEMENT PROGRAM, AND COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM WITH SAID PROGRAM RECORDED THEREON - A server includes: an input information database | 09-19-2013 |
20130262457 | LOCATION NAME SUGGESTION - Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to generate a ranked set of possible locations of a user based on user information and a user location. Some examples may generate a first set of locations that are near a location associated with the user. Features may be extracted from information about the user and the first set of locations for use by a ranking model. A second set of locations may be generated by the ranking model based on the extracted features and the first set of locations. In some cases, the second set of locations may be a ranked set of one or more of the locations of the first set of locations. | 10-03-2013 |
20130297596 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISTANCE AND PERFORMANCE BASED LOAD BALANCING - Systems and methods for a DNS management system utilize a distance-based and/or a performance-based A record. A DNS management system of embodiments receives a request from a client for an IP address associated with a domain name. A database of IP address location records is queried to determine a geographic location of the client in operation according to embodiments. An A record corresponding to the geographically closest available server node may thereafter be delivered to the client. A system operable according to embodiments may additionally or alternatively monitor the performance of available servers and deliver an A record corresponding to the best performing local server. | 11-07-2013 |
20130311460 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS TO SORT INFORMATION RELATED TO ENTITIES HAVING DIFFERENT LOCATIONS - Systems and methods sort location dependent information based on selecting multiple groups of information according to location, ordering the groups based on location, and ordering the information within the groups based on at least one or more other criteria. The size(s) of the areas used to select the groups may be predetermined, or dynamically determined (e.g., based on clustering of information along distance to a location of interest). | 11-21-2013 |
20130311461 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING RASTER DATA IN THE CLOUD - A method includes the steps of: providing a computer based raster data search system; providing raster data; providing one or more search models as a search criteria; receiving as input the raster data; transforming by computer the raster data into a mathematical representation of the appearance of the raster data; storing the mathematical representation of the appearance of the raster data as a set of models in a database; comparing by computer at least one search model to the set of models in the database; and generating a result which indicates a likelihood of a similarity to the search criteria in the raster data. A system to perform the method is also described. | 11-21-2013 |
20130318077 | TARGETED CONTENT DELIVERY BASED ON ZONAL TAXONOMY - The effectiveness of targeted content delivery can be directly linked to the number and type of known user characteristics. A way of improving targeted content delivery can be to infer unknown user characteristics from known information. The present technology utilizes the type of and frequency of a user's visits to one or more predefined location zones to infer unknown user characteristics. The type of location zone and the frequency of visits to the location zone can be combined with other known user characteristics, such as declared user characteristics, to infer one or more characteristics. Additionally, the user's visits to one or more predefined location zones can be used assign a user to one or more targeted segments and to prioritize the segments assigned to the user. Based on the declared and inferred user characteristics and the segment assignments, targeted content can be selected for delivery to the user. | 11-28-2013 |
20130318078 | System and Method for Producing Multi-Angle Views of an Object-of-Interest from Images in an Image Dataset - Disclosed are a system and method for creating multi-angle views of an object-of-interest from images stored in a dataset. A user specifies the location of an object-of-interest. As the user virtually navigates through the locality represented by the image dataset, his current virtual position is determined. Using the user's virtual position and the location of the object-of-interest, images in the image dataset are selected and interpolated or stitched together, if necessary, to present to the user a view from his current virtual position looking toward the object-of-interest. The object-of-interest remains in the view no matter where the user virtually travels. From the same image dataset, another user can select a different object-of-interest and virtually navigate in a similar manner, with his own object-of-interest always in view. The object-of-interest also can be “virtual,” added by computer-animation techniques to the image dataset. For some image datasets, the user can virtually navigate through time as well as through space. | 11-28-2013 |
20130325855 | Venue Prediction Based on Ranking - A technique is disclosed for presenting possible check-in venues to a mobile device user, such as for the purpose of checking in with social networking services such as Foursquare. The disclosed technique operates by training a model during an initial training sequence. The trained model, representing a learned hypothesis, describes venues that are ranked according to their relevance to users who are also described by the model. During a subsequent run-time sequence, the system receives real-time geolocation data that represents users, wherein the data includes user geolocation and the level of accuracy of the geolocation. The system generates a set of candidate venues, ranks the generated candidate venues by applying the learned hypothesis, which can be dependent on the level of accuracy, and presents the user with the ranked venues as possible check-in venues. The user can then select the venue actually being checked into from the presented check-in venues. | 12-05-2013 |
20130325856 | APP RECOMMENDATION USING CROWD-SOURCED LOCALIZED APP USAGE DATA - Apps may be tagged with location data when they are used. Mobile device may anonymously submit app usage data. Aggregated app usage data from many mobile devices may be analyzed to determine apps that are particularly relevant to a given location (i.e., exhibiting a high degree of localization). Analysis may include determining the app usage intensity, whether hotspots exist or not at a given location, the spatial entropy of a particular app, the device populations in a particular area, etc. Based on the localized app analysis, apps may be ranked according to local relevance, and, based on this ranking, app recommendations may be provided to a user. | 12-05-2013 |
20130332452 | Providing Location and Spatial Data about the Physical Environment - A system and computer program product are provided for providing location and spatial data about the physical environment. The system is configured to sense a tag provided in the environment by a mobile device; receive data from the tag at the mobile device, the data including location and spatial data relating to the physical environment of the tag; and represent the location and spatial data from the tag by the mobile device. In one embodiment, sensing a tag may include sensing a tag in the form of a machine-readable symbol; and receiving data from the tag receives data by processing an image of the machine-readable symbol by the mobile device. In another embodiment, sensing a tag includes sensing a tag in the form of a transmitter device; and receiving data from the tag receives data by receiving a signal by the mobile device. | 12-12-2013 |
20140025670 | LOCATION BASED RECOMMENDATIONS - A method disclosed herein comprises ranking a service provider or a product for a user based on scorings of the service provider by one or more members of a network of the user and weights assigned to each of the scorings, wherein the weights are determined based on the user. | 01-23-2014 |
20140032543 | System And Method For Identifying A Location Of Interest To Be Named By A User - A mobile communication device for identifying a location to be named comprising a position locator component configured to determine a location of a user and a communication interface component configured to provide the location for use in determining user-specific location information including at least one of a number of times and an amount of time the user is present at or near the location. The location naming component is configured to receive an identification of the location as a location of interest. The location naming component is configured to provide a prompt for naming the location of interest for presentation by a graphical user interface component. The location naming component is configured to receive name information for naming the location. The graphical user interface component is configured to present the name information for the location of interest on the mobile communication device. | 01-30-2014 |
20140040251 | AUGMENTATION OF PLACE RANKING USING 3D MODEL ACTIVITY IN AN AREA - Aspects of the invention relate generally to ranking geographic locations based on perceived user interest. More specifically, a database of three-dimensional models of buildings or other architectural features may be used to determine the level of user interest in a particular location and accordingly rank, for example, geographic locations or web or map search results with local intent. For example, various signals such as the number of models created by users for a particular location, the number of clicks or requests for the models of the particular location, the number of POIs contained within or associated with the models associated with the particular geographic location, number of categories associated with a model associated with the geographic location, number of embedded views or views of the models associated with the particular location on other web sites, and the age of the models associated with the particular geographic location. | 02-06-2014 |
20140040252 | Providing Location and Spatial Data about the Physical Environment - A method is provided for providing location and spatial data about the physical environment. The method includes: sensing a tag provided in the environment by a mobile device; receiving data from the tag at the mobile device, the data including location and spatial data relating to the physical environment of the tag; and representing the location and spatial data from the tag by the mobile device. In one embodiment, sensing a tag may include sensing a tag in the form of a machine-readable symbol; and receiving data from the tag receives data by processing an image of the machine-readable symbol by the mobile device. In another embodiment, sensing a tag includes sensing a tag in the form of a transmitter device; and receiving data from the tag receives data by receiving a signal by the mobile device. | 02-06-2014 |
20140108391 | SEARCH ASSISTANT FOR DIGITAL MEDIA ASSETS - Techniques and systems for facilitating searching of digital media assets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user can be assisted in entering search strings for searching a media repository (e.g., online media store) having a plurality of digital media assets that are available, e.g., available for purchase. When the user enters a search character, a list of possible complete search strings corresponding to digital media assets available in the media repository can be obtained over a network and presented to the user. The list of possible search strings can be filtered based on whether a client device supports a media type associated with a word or based on a location of the client device. | 04-17-2014 |
20140129552 | LEVERAGING HOMOPHILY IN RANKING SEARCH RESULTS - Techniques for ranking search results generated by a search engine are described. Consistent with some embodiments, a search engine processes a search query to identify member profiles of members of a social network service for presentation in a search results page or user interface. The member profiles are presented in the search results ordered based on a ranking score that is derived at least in part by identifying similarities in the member profile attributes of the member profiles satisfying the search query and the member profile of the person performing the search. Accordingly, to the extent that a member profile has similarities shared in common with the member profile of the member performing the search, that member profile is more likely to be presented more prominently in the search results. | 05-08-2014 |
20140129553 | Search Results Based on Velocity Vectors - In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a search query from a mobile-client system, where the mobile-client system has a location and a velocity vector, identifying one or more objects corresponding to the query, and determining a score for each object based on the location and velocity vector of the mobile-client system. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136530 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE COLLABORATIVE COLLECTION, ASSIGNMENT, VISUALIZATION, ANALYSIS, AND MODIFICATION OF PROBABLE GENEALOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS BASED ON GEO-SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PROXIMITY - System, methods, apparatus and media for the geo-spatial capture and transcription of family trees, vital records, census records, land transfer records, cemetery records, and organizational membership records; for assigning deterministic and probabilistic relationships between people in geographic proximity; and for visualizing known, probable, and potential relationships in a geo-spatial context over time. Also disclosed are systems, methods, apparatus and media for organizing and analyzing genealogical information for searching and visualizing individuals and entities and their relationships to each other within a geo-spatial and temporal context. Further disclosed are systems, methods, apparatus and media for identifying a social networking site based on geo-spatial and temporal context data relating to individuals and entities and their relationships to each other. | 05-15-2014 |
20140143240 | INFORMATION SEARCH SERVER AND INFORMATION SEARCH METHOD THEREOF - An information search server and an information search method thereof are provided. The information search server includes a transceiver and a processor. The transceiver receives a search message having an original store phone number of an original store from a user device. The processor performs a data mining procedure, according to the original store phone number, to obtain an original store name and an original store address associated with the original store phone number, a category associated with the original store name, an original store latitude and longitude associated with the original store address, and a recommended store information associated with the category and the original store latitude and longitude, and generates a result message having the recommended store information. The transceiver further transmits the result message to the user device. | 05-22-2014 |
20140143241 | INTERNET NEWS PLATFORM AND RELATED SOCIAL NETWORK - This disclosure is related to a method, related system, and related non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium that implements a social network for aggregating Internet news, and, more specifically, receiving and presenting news content to a user of the social network. | 05-22-2014 |
20140156653 | METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR PROVIDING STANDARD REAL WORLD TO VIRTUAL WORLD LINKS - An apparatus for providing standard real world to virtual world links may include a processing element configured to receive indications of an image including an object, determine whether the object corresponds to a particular object having a predefined association based on a recognition of the object, and execute a function corresponding to the predefined association in response to the object corresponding to the particular object. | 06-05-2014 |
20140164368 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AGGREGATING AND DISTRIBUTING GEOTAGGED CONTENT - A system and method for aggregating and distributing geotagged content comprises a server, a database, and a user interface. A user accesses the user interface to identify a spatial area and request content from a plurality of content providers that is geotagged with a location within the identified spatial area. The user interface may be on a webpage. | 06-12-2014 |
20140172843 | Locally Significant Search Queries - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for servicing search queries. In one aspect, a method includes determining that a general search query is a locally significant query for a user location that is associated with the user general search query. In turn, a local search query is generated using the general search query and a location phrase representing the user location. A set of set of general search results responsive to the general search query and a set of local search results responsive to the local search query are requested. A final set of search results responsive to the search query are selected. The final set of search results include at least one search result that is included in the set of local search results, and is not included in a pre-specified quantity of highest ranking search results from the set of general search results. Data that cause presentation of the final set of search results are provided. | 06-19-2014 |
20140195529 | Shared Image Database With Geographic Navigation - There is disclosed a method and device for operating an image database shared by a plurality of users. In an embodiment, each image captured by a user and stored in a shared image database is associating with the geographic coordinates of the location at which the image was captured. A search engine for the image database is configured to accept geographic coordinates as a search criterion for locating at least one captured image stored in the shared image database. The images having location coordinates within a predefined range of geographic coordinates is displayed to the user. | 07-10-2014 |
20140214819 | Correlating Social Media Data with Location Information - Techniques for correlating social media data with location information are described. In at least some embodiments, social media data is gathered from a social media platform, and the social media data is processed to determine correlations between topic information from the social media data and locations. The correlations can be aggregated to generate a database of social media information. The database can be searchable with various search terms to determine interest levels at different locations for topics associated with the social media data. Results of such a search can be provided in a variety of ways, such as via maps, tables, and so on. | 07-31-2014 |
20140222797 | Collecting And Providing Information Online - Online posts may be categorized or sorted by poster's geographic location. The posts may also be categorized or sorted by post mood polarity. The selected posts based on location or mood polarity may be summarized and then presented to users in a concise form. The geographic location information may be verified by poster's confirmation. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222798 | Search with My Location History - A method for incorporating information pertaining to geographic locations previously visited by a user into a search. The method includes: obtaining location information corresponding to a user account; determining, from the location information, one or more geographic locations that correspond to the location information; providing a user interface that includes a prompt that accepts search terms as input to a search query and an option to include a group of one or more geographic locations in the search query; and providing for display results related to the search terms and to one or more geographic locations in the group of one or more geographic locations when the option to include the group of one or more geographic locations is selected. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222799 | DETERMINING CORE GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION IN A DOCUMENT - A method determines core geographical information in a document by computing a score for each geographical name found in the document. The computation of the score uses the appearance frequency of the respective geographical name and positional weights assigned to various types of appearance positions of the geographical name in the document. The system determines the core geographical information in the document based on the scores of the geographical names found in the document. The method may further compute aggregated scores of geographical regions related to the geographical names and determine the core geographical information using both the aggregated scores of geographical regions and the scores of individual geographical names to increase accuracy. | 08-07-2014 |
20140222800 | PERSONALIZATION OF NEWS ARTICLES BASED ON NEWS SOURCES - News search and browse experience is personalized based on user preferences. User attributes like a geographic location are obtained and news sources preferred by other users with attributes similar to those of a requesting user are identified. News sources that are popular across different user groups are eliminated and relevant news items from the remaining news sources are retrieved and presented to the requesting user. | 08-07-2014 |
20140236937 | Method and System for Determining Geographic Data to Display - When a first map application initiates a search of a first geographic database associated with the first map application, for geographic data or when the first geographic database does not return at least a portion of the geographic data in response to the search, the first map application initiates a search of a second geographic database for at least the portion of the geographic data. The second geographic database is associated with a second map application. If the second geographic database includes the portion of the requested data, the first map application displays the geographic data, which is received from the first database, the second database, or a combination thereof. The first map application also requests that a user input the portion of the geographic data not included in the first geographic database, which may then be added to the first geographic database. | 08-21-2014 |
20140244634 | Systems and Methods for Providing Personalized Search Results Based on Prior User Interactions - Embodiments include a computer-implemented method that includes receiving, from a user, a plurality of search queries, receiving, from the user, a plurality of search refinements associated with the plurality of search queries (the search refinements resulting in the display of a plurality of refined results to the user) mapping one of the plurality of search queries to one of the refined results, receiving, from the user, the one of the plurality of search queries mapped to one of the refined results, and, in response to receiving the one of the plurality of search queries mapped to one of the refined results, providing, for display to the user, refined content corresponding to the one of the refined results mapped to the one of the plurality of search queries received from the user. | 08-28-2014 |
20140244635 | Methods For Query Processing Of Topological Relationships Among Complex Spatial Objects - An optimized method of processing queries requesting a description of a spatial relationship between a test geometry and a query geometry, such as points, lines, polygons, and collections thereof, is disclosed. A first part of the method finds a first spatial relationship between a minimum bounding rectangle (MBR) of the test geometry and an In-Memory R-tree (IMR-tree) built to describe the query geometry. If the first relationship does not specify the requested description, then a second part of the method uses the IMR-tree of the query geometry to find a second spatial relationship between the test geometry itself and the query geometry. Optimizations are applied to the first part and to the second part. Optimizations in the second part depend on the test geometry. | 08-28-2014 |
20140250113 | GEOGRAPHIC RELEVANCE WITHIN A SOFT COPY DOCUMENT OR MEDIA OBJECT - A technique is provided for identifying geographic context in a media object to embed meta tags for the geographic context in the media object. Input is received of the media object including geographic relevant expressions. Each of the geographic relevant expressions in the media object is identified for display to a user. The geographic relevant expressions in the media object are displayed with an option for the user to enter values for each of the geographic relevant expressions. The values are respectively included in meta tags. The meta tags are assigned to the geographic relevant expressions in the media object, such that the meta tags include the values respectively corresponding to each of the geographic relevant expressions. The meta tags having the values for the geographic relevant expressions are embedded in the media object, such that the meta tags in the media object are available for searching and indexing. | 09-04-2014 |
20140258280 | Systems and Methods for Associating Microposts with Geographic Locations - Embodiments include a computer-implemented method that includes receiving microposts including tokens, identifying a subset of the microposts that include a given token, determining a geographic location corresponding to the subset of the microposts that include the given token, associating the given token with the geographic location, and updating an index to reflect an association between the given token and the geographic location. | 09-11-2014 |
20140258281 | Method And Server For Searching For Nearby User In Social Networking Services - When location information and a user Identification (ID) is received from a client terminal device of a user X, a grid Y, to which the location information belongs, is determined. The user ID and the location information of the user X is stored in a list of the grid Y. The grid Y is in a grid array obtained by dividing a surface of the earth into the grids and areas of the grids are the same. Users in the grid Y and other grids are searched. The grid Y and the other grids form an N-grid and the grid Y is a center of the N-grid. The users are ranked in an ascending order of distances between the users and the user X. The ranked user IDs and distances between the users and the user X are sent to the client terminal device of the user X. | 09-11-2014 |
20140280100 | CLOUD-BASED PHONE SYSTEM WITH METHODOLOGIES FOR SUGGESTING ACCOUNT CONFIGURATION SETTINGS - A cloud-based phone system with methodologies for suggesting account configuration settings is provided. In one embodiment, for example, techniques are provided for suggesting how a particular user should configure a particular account configuration parameter of a plurality of account configuration parameters available to the particular user. One or more parameters of the plurality of account configuration parameters that are related to the particular parameter are identified. One or more other users are identified that have configured the one or more parameters similar to how the particular user has configured the one or more parameters. A suggestion of how the particular user should configure the particular parameter is made based on settings for the particular parameter made by the one or more other users. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280101 | SEARCHES AND RECOMMENDATIONS USING DISTANCE METRIC ON SPACE OF MEDIA TITLES - Techniques are described for generating search results and content recommendations using a distance metric on a space of media titles. In one embodiment, each media title may be associated with metadata tags and represented by a vector which indicates those associated tags. The distance metric may measure distance as an angle between vectors representing media titles in a bent vector space that accounts for correlations between tags. Further, a non-linear scaling may be applied to the vectors representing media titles to correct for under-tagging and redundant tagging. Based on the distance metric, a search or recommendation application may generate search results and/or content recommendations and cause the same to be presented to a user. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280102 | MOVING SERVICES MOBILE APPLICATION AND SYSTEM - Some implementations can include a method comprising obtaining moving company information and verifying moving company information. The method can also include adding moving company information to a database and providing moving company information in response to a database query. The moving company information can be provided to a mobile device. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280103 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING A GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN OF CONTENT AND ACCURACY OF GEOTAGS RELATED TO CONTENT OBTAINED FROM SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER CONTENT PROVIDERS - A system and method for managing geotag data associated with content within a geofeed is provided. The content may be tagged with metadata such as geotag data that may specify a location where the content was created. The generated content may be geotagged by one or more geotag sources including a GPS-enabled device, a user input, a content provider, a user profile, or other sources. The system may determine the geotag data for the content that is not already associated with geotag data. The system may determine a confidence level of the geotag data, whether already geotagged or not. The confidence level may be indicative of a likelihood that the geotag data accurately describes a location where the content was actually created. | 09-18-2014 |
20140280104 | TRADEMARK SEARCH RESULTS PRESENTATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A system providing trademark search results includes: a controller; a display controlled by the controller; and a memory coupled to the controller, wherein the memory is configured to store program instructions executable by the controller; wherein in response to executing the program instructions, the controller is configured to: receive a data set of trademark search results including a searched mark, a plurality of reference, and at least one proximity score between each reference and the searched mark; and provide through the display an interactive visual representation of the search results including a displayed relationship between the searched mark and at least two of the plurality of references, wherein the displayed relationship between the searched mark and the at least two of the plurality of references is a visual representation of the proximity score between the searched mark and each of the at least two of the plurality of references. | 09-18-2014 |
20140289235 | USER INTERFACE AND GEO-PARSING DATA STRUCTURE - A method to allocate memory, in response to application requests, for a compact data structure having location data and a trailer section is provided. The trailer section of the compact data structure is checked to determine an offset for listings and indices representing the location data. Upon determining the offset, the listings and indices are loaded into memory and responses to the application requests are generated by utilizing the listings and indices stored in the memory. | 09-25-2014 |
20140297629 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CATEGORIZING A CONTENT OBJECT BY GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION OF THE CONTENT OBJECT - An approach for categorizing a content object by geographical location of the content object. In one embodiment, a first computer receiving a content object and geographical location associated with the content object from a second computer. The first computer further generates a container for the geographical location of the content object if such container does not exist. The first computer also generates a record of the content object. Further, the first computer generates a record of the content object. The first computer also classifies the record of the content object based on the geographical location. The first computer files the record of the content object to the container. | 10-02-2014 |
20140304258 | Location Identification Using Hierarchical Nature of Geographic Locations - Systems and methods for location identification are provided. Hierarchical organization of geographic regions is utilized to determine if a document targets a particular location. | 10-09-2014 |
20140304259 | Multi-Prefix Query Optimizations - The present invention includes systems and methods for retrieving information via a flexible and consistent targeted search model that employs interactive multi-prefix, multi-tier and dynamic menu information retrieval techniques that provide context-specific functionality tailored to particular information channels, as well as to records within or across such channels, and other known state information. Users are presented with a consistent search interface among multiple tiers across and within a large domain of information sources, and need not learn different or special search syntax. A thin-client server-controlled architecture enables users of resource-constrained mobile communications devices to locate targeted information more quickly by entering fewer keystrokes and performing fewer query iterations and web page refreshes, which in turn reduces required network bandwidth. | 10-09-2014 |
20140310268 | LOCATION REFINEMENT - Methods and apparatus related to associating location data with one or more entities. Location data from, for example, mobile devices carried by users, may indicate a first entity as being associated with the given location data. However, one or more affirmative user inputs may indicate that a second entity is additionally, and/or alternatively associated with location data. Accordingly, location data may be associated with the second entity. In some implementations the first entity may be dissociated from the first location data. In some implementations second location data may be identified as being associated with the first entity and the second location data may be associated with the first entity. | 10-16-2014 |
20140317102 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION INFORMATION FOR COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH AN ACCESS NETWORK - A system and method for providing location information for communications through an access network in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. The system and method involve receiving a communication including a message from an origination device. The communication includes access point information and the message includes an identifier of the communication. The access point information from the communication is extracted and the access point information or geographic data based on the access point information is stored in a database. The message including the identifier is sent to a destination device of the message. The storing of the access point information or the geographic data in the database enables the destination device to obtain the access point information or the geographic data using the identifier included in the message by querying the database. | 10-23-2014 |
20140324843 | GEO PHOTO SEARCHING BASED ON CURRENT CONDITIONS AT A LOCATION - In an exemplary method, a request for images of a location is received. In response to the request, a set of images depicting different conditions at the location is identified. Each image of the set of images is associated with condition information defining the conditions depicted in that image. It may be determined when a user will be at the location at a future point in time. Information identifying current environmental conditions at the location for the future point in time may be received. The set of images are ranked based on the received environmental information and the condition information for each image. An image from the set of images is selected for display based on the selected image's rank relative to other images of the set of images. The selected image depicts current conditions at the location most closely matching environmental conditions expected at the future point in time. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324844 | UNIFIED GEOGRAHIC DATABASE AND METHODS OF CREATING, MAINTAINING AND USING THE SAME - A Universal Geographic Database (“UGD”) is provided that includes a real-time, automated registry/clearinghouse for the publication and retrieval of real-world locations and location-related information for businesses and other entities. By this registry, entities may publish their location and location-related information in a single place, and information services and their users can refer to this single place, via telecommunications devices, to obtain static, real-time location and location-based information about the registered locations. Each UGD record is keyed by a proprietary location address (PLA) based on the World Geographic Referencing System (WGRS). PLAs may be used as key reference and addressing terms, e.g., imbedded in digital documents, websites, GPS devices, or other information services to provide links to maps, directions, and information in the registry related to such locations. PLAs may also provide a concise, user-friendly notation for location naming and designating real-world locations and on all types of location-sensitive electronic devices. | 10-30-2014 |
20140324845 | Universal Lookup of Video-Related Data - A universal video-related lookup system and method receives a request for information associated with specific video content from a requesting device. The system and method identify a first video content identifier associated with the specific video content and retrieves first metadata associated with the specific video content based on the first video content identifier. Next, the system and method translate the first video content identifier into a second video content identifier associated with the specific video content and retrieves second metadata based on the second video content identifier. The first metadata and the second metadata are then provided to the requesting device. | 10-30-2014 |
20140351248 | GENERATING GEOGRAPHICAL KEYWORDS FOR GEOTARGETING SEARCH ENGINE-OFFERED ADVERTISEMENTS - A computer-based method for use in geotargeting online ads to users of search engines by allowing comparison of user's search terms with a set of geo-keywords. The method includes providing a geographic keyword generator on a server that is linked to the Internet. The method includes providing a spatial database storing classes of geographic keywords. The method continues with receiving a keyword request including a business address from a client node. The keyword generator determines a service area based on this location, and a set of geographic keywords is retrieved from the spatial database that are associated (e.g., within) the determined service area. This set of keywords is transmitted or reported to the client node (e.g., displayed in a web browser or user interface) for use in geotargeting of their online advertisements. The keyword request includes a business type, and the service area is sized based on the business type. | 11-27-2014 |
20140358912 | Identifying Event-Specific Social Discussion Threads - Techniques, systems, and articles of manufacture for identifying event-specific social discussion threads. A method includes identifying a spatial relationship and one or more additional relationships across two or more topical clusters derived from a text source, extracting one or more temporally evolving discussion sequences across the two or more topical clusters, identifying at least one social discussion thread across the two or more topical clusters by identifying a correlation between the one or more additional relationships and the one or more temporally evolving discussion sequences, and to identifying a geographically-constrained social discussion thread among the at least one identified social discussion thread by identifying a correlation between the spatial relationship across the two or more topical clusters and the at least one identified social discussion thread. | 12-04-2014 |
20140365476 | VIRTUAL TAG, CLIENT HOSTED AND CLIENT SOURCED CONTENT/SERVICES RATING AND RANKING SUPPORT - A technique in which a tag associated with a target object is sent to a user device to provide information regarding the target object. The tag includes a rating indicator for a recipient of the tag to respond to the rating indicator, in which the rating indicator is used to request a rating of one or more characteristics related to the target object. The rating response is collected with verification information to determine a level of verification of the rating response, in which the verification may include reliability of the rater providing the rating response. The response and level of verification are used to rank the rating response and provide further filtering of the tag related to the target object. | 12-11-2014 |
20140372420 | Systems and Methods for Providing Search Results for Mobile Businesses - Embodiments include a computer-implemented method that includes receiving mobile business location information indicative of a geographic location of a mobile business, receiving a search request, identifying a set of search results responsive to the search request, the set of search results including a search result corresponding to the mobile business, identifying a current geographic location of the mobile business based at least in part on the mobile business location information, ranking the set of search results based at least in part on the current geographic location associated with the mobile business to generate a set of ranked search results, and providing the set of ranked search results for display. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372421 | OPTIMAL ZOOM INDICATORS FOR MAP SEARCH RESULTS - A system and computer program product for indicating an optimal magnification level for displaying search query results in a mapping application running in a computer device. The method comprises: obtaining search results for a business or category of interest in a geographical area; determining the search results to be displayed within a mapping application; determining an optimal magnification level corresponding to a search result; generating a magnification indicator for indicating an optimal magnification level for the search result to be displayed within the mapping application; and adjusting the display within the mapping application to change to the determined optimal magnification level responsive to selecting the magnification indicator for that search result. | 12-18-2014 |
20140372422 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DISPLAYING MICROBLOG DYNAMICS, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM - Various embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for displaying microblog dynamics. The method includes: obtaining a microblog viewing request containing first location information; searching microblog dynamic information containing second location information, wherein a distance between the first location and the second location is within a preset range; and obtaining an electronic map corresponding to the first location information, and showing the microblog dynamic information in a location corresponding to the second location information on the electronic map. Various embodiments of the present invention also provide a device for displaying microblog dynamics and a computer storage medium. | 12-18-2014 |
20150019543 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE COLLABORATIVE COLLECTION, ASSIGNMENT, VISUALIZATION, ANALYSIS, AND MODIFICATION OF PROBABLE GENEALOGICAL RELATIONSHIPS BASED ON GEO-SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PROXIMITY - System, methods, apparatus and media for the geo-spatial capture and transcription of family trees, vital records, census records, land transfer records, cemetery records, and organizational membership records; for assigning deterministic and probabilistic relationships between people in geographic proximity; and for visualizing known, probable, and potential relationships in a geo-spatial context over time. Also disclosed are systems, methods, apparatus and media for organizing and analyzing genealogical information for searching and visualizing individuals and entities and their relationships to each other within a geo-spatial and temporal context. Further disclosed are systems, methods, apparatus and media for identifying a social networking site based on geo-spatial and temporal context data relating to individuals and entities and their relationships to each other. | 01-15-2015 |
20150032739 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PREDICTING A GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN OF CONTENT AND ACCURACY OF GEOTAGS RELATED TO CONTENT OBTAINED FROM SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER CONTENT PROVIDERS - A system and method for managing geotag data associated with content within a geofeed is provided. The content may be tagged with metadata such as geotag data that may specify a location where the content was created. The generated content may be geotagged by one or more geotag sources including a GPS-enabled device, a user input, a content provider, a user profile, or other sources. The system may determine the geotag data for the content that is not already associated with geotag data. The system may determine a confidence level of the geotag data, whether already geotagged or not. The confidence level may be indicative of a likelihood that the geotag data accurately describes a location where the content was actually created. | 01-29-2015 |
20150039599 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR RECOMMENDING TOP LEVEL AND SECOND LEVEL DOMAINS - A system and method are presented for recommending domain names. One or more computer servers receive a query including at least one keyword from a user. A business category associated with the user is determined and a data base storing a plurality of top level domain name rankings is accessed to identify a first ranking of top level domain names for the business category. A listing of candidate domain names relevant to the query is generated and the listing of candidate domain names relevant to the query is displayed for selection and registration by the user. The listing of candidate domain names is ordered according to the first ranking of top level domain names for the business category. | 02-05-2015 |
20150052124 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING SEARCH QUERIES UTILIZING HIERARCHICALLY ORGANIZED DATA - Computerized systems and methods are provided for generating results of a search query. In accordance with some implementations, data is received that is indicative of a character string related to a location and provided as input by a user. One or more hierarchically organized data trees are retrieved, from a storage device, for administrative areas related to the input character. Thereafter, probable target addresses are determined for the location utilizing the hierarchically organized data trees for each of the administrative areas, and a list of probable target addresses is provided for display to the user based on the hierarchy of the administrative areas. | 02-19-2015 |
20150052125 | UNIFORM SEARCH, NAVIGATION AND COMBINATION OF HETEROGENEOUS DATA - A method and system for interfacing with an end user to search, navigate, and combine large numbers of heterogeneous data sources with varying data characteristics. End user entered search terms are received and the end user is then presented a guided exploration including search results and search result details. The end user is also presented with a guided combination including search result combination options and combination details. Both the guided exploration and guided combination render all data from the heterogeneous data sources in a uniform data format and both can culminate in saving selected results. | 02-19-2015 |
20150066919 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROCESSING CROWD-SOURCED MULTIMEDIA ITEMS - Systems, methods, and computer applications and media for gathering, categorizing, sorting, managing, reviewing and organizing large quantities of multimedia items across space and time and using crowd-sourcing resources are described. Various implementations may enable either public or private (e.g., internal to an organization) crowdsourcing of multimedia item gathering and analysis, including the gathering, analysis, lead-searching, and classification of digital still images and digital videos. Various implementations may allow a user, such as a law enforcement investigator, to consolidate all of the available multimedia items into one system, and quickly gather, sort, organize, and display the multimedia items based on location, time, content, or other parameters. Moreover, an investigator may be able to create crowd source tasks as he works with the multimedia items and utilize crowd source resources when he needs help. | 03-05-2015 |
20150095325 | Business Entity Searching And Automatic Dialing For Smartphones - Business entity search results are provided for smartphones for automatic dialing. Search results are provided based on partial business entity name and location information. Search results are trimmed to only include name, address, and phone number. A smartphone is adapted to display search results concisely allowing the user to quickly identify and call the desired business entity. | 04-02-2015 |
20150100571 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING A THREE DIMENSIONAL MODEL FOR ACCESSING DATABASES - A database access computing device for utilizing a three dimensional model to access databases for information regarding one or more parts in a vehicle is provided. The database access computing device includes at least one processor. The database access computing device is configured to display a three dimensional model representing at least one version of a vehicle, receive a selection of a location within the three dimensional model, identify at least one part number associated with the location in a first database, retrieve part information from at least a second database using the part number, and display the part information retrieved from at least the second database on the three dimensional model. | 04-09-2015 |
20150106364 | Automatic Generation of Geographic Imagery Tours - An indication of a geographic area is received. Respective metrics of noteworthiness are obtained for multiple entities located in the geographic area. Using a machine-readable knowledge repository that describes semantic relations between the entities, several of the entities are selected in view of the corresponding metrics of noteworthiness, so that the selected entities share a set of attributes defining a commonality, and so that digital imagery is available for each of the selected entities. This commonality is not specified by the user. A geographic imagery tour that includes a representation of the respective digital imagery for the selected entities is generated. | 04-16-2015 |
20150112978 | DISTANCE BASED SEARCH RANKING DEMOTION - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing local search results. In one aspect, a method determines a first local document in a set of local documents for search results is eligible for a demotion operation. The determination is based at least in part on a proximity measure based on the location of the user device and a location specified for the first local document. In response to the determination, for each other local documents in the set of local documents, a proximity measure location of the user device and the location specified for the other local document is determined. The first local document is demoted in its ranking when at least one of the proximity measures indicates a respective other local document has a specified location that is within a threshold distance of the location of the user device. | 04-23-2015 |
20150120715 | NON-TRANSITORY COMPUTER READABLE MEDIUM, DOCUMENT RECOMMENDING APPARATUS, AND DOCUMENT RECOMMENDING METHOD - A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a process for recommending a document is disclosed. The process includes acquiring current position information of a portable terminal, storing place attribute information, multiple electronic documents, and document attribute information, the place attribute information being information in which positional information and an attribute of a place indicated by the positional information are associated with each other, the document attribute information indicating an attribute of each of the multiple electronic documents, determining an attribute of the current position information on a basis of the current position information and the place attribute information, selecting a recommended document for the portable terminal from the multiple electronic documents, on a basis of the attribute of the current position information and the document attribute information, and causing information indicating the recommended document to be displayed on a display of the portable terminal. | 04-30-2015 |
20150120716 | Dynamic Menus for Multi-Prefix Interactive Mobile Searches - The present invention includes systems and methods for retrieving information via a flexible and consistent targeted search model that employs interactive multi-prefix, multi-tier and dynamic menu information retrieval techniques that provide context-specific functionality tailored to particular information channels, as well as to records within or across such channels, and other known state information. Users are presented with a consistent search interface among multiple tiers across and within a large domain of information sources, and need not learn different or special search syntax. A thin-client server-controlled architecture enables users of resource-constrained mobile communications devices to locate targeted information more quickly by entering fewer keystrokes and performing fewer query iterations and web page refreshes, which in turn reduces required network bandwidth. | 04-30-2015 |
20150142789 | Content Recommendation Based on Efficacy Models - The disclosure includes a system and method for providing recommendation items to users. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to: receive identification input data associated with a user; identify the user using the identification input data; receive sensor data; determine a current situation associated with the user from one or more predefined situations described by predefined situation data and associated parameters; receive data describing a set of candidate items; generate a set of efficacy scores for the set of candidate items; eliminate one or more candidate items from the set of candidate items to obtain one or more remaining candidate items; rank the one or more remaining candidate items based on one or more associated efficacy scores; and provide one or more recommendation items to the user from the one or more ranked remaining candidate items. | 05-21-2015 |
20150302018 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PHOTOGRAPH MAPPING - Systems and methods for photograph mapping are disclosed herein. In one embodiment a first digital image and at least one user-generated datum is received from at least one user. The first image is geographically organized according to the at least one datum. The first image is associated with at least one location and at least one direction. The first image is provided from a first person perspective to a user in response to a request. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302019 | EVENT OCCURENCE PLACE ESTIMATION METHOD, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM STORING EVENT OCCURRENCE PLACE ESTIMATION PROGRAM, AND EVENT OCCURRENCE PLACE ESTIMATION APPARATUS - An event-occurrence-place estimation method having a process executed by a computer, the process includes acquiring a message of a predetermined event from social media to which a message is posted; extracting occurrence place information indicating an occurrence place of the predetermined event from the acquired messages; ranking the occurrence places in descending order according to the number of acquired messages corresponding to each of the pieces of occurrence place information, cumulating, for each of the occurrence places, the number of acquired messages of the occurrence place and the number of acquired messages of the occurrence places which are ranked higher than the occurrence place information, and identifying a change point where an increase rate of the cumulated number of the messages is an average increase ratio; and outputting the piece of occurrence place information identified by the identified change point. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302030 | Location-Based Facial Recognition on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a computing system may access an image associated with an online social network, where the image portrays at least a first person. The computing system may determine, for each user in a first set of users, a facial recognition score with respect to the first person portrayed in the image, where the facial recognition score is based on a facial representation associated with each user of the first set of users, where the facial representation associated with each user is compared with the image, and a comparison of a location history of each user with a location associated with the image. The computing system may generate one or more tag suggestions for the first person portrayed in the image based on the determined facial recognition scores. | 10-22-2015 |
20150302092 | Location-Based Ranking of Search Results on Online Social Networks - In one embodiment, a computing system may access a social graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the nodes, each of the edges between two of the nodes representing a single degree of separation between them, where the nodes comprise a first node corresponding to a first user of an online social network, and a plurality of second nodes that each correspond to a concept or a second user associated with the online social network. The computing system may receive a search query from the first user. The computing system may generate one or more search results corresponding to the search query, where each search result corresponds to a node of the plurality of second nodes. The computing system may score each search result based on a proximity coefficient between the first node and the node corresponding to the search result. | 10-22-2015 |
20150310037 | SYSTEM FOR COLLECTING, AGGREGATING AND INTERPRETING GEO-SPATIAL DATA FOR MARKETING AND SECURITY APPLICATIONS - The abounding dependence of people on mobile devices and ‘staying connected’ produces a valuable by-product for collection and interpretation of passive and dynamic location-based data from cellular networks, private and micro-networks as well as social platforms. Where traditional tools such as human-counters and/or static hardware deployments are used to determine traffic for a geographic region or point of interest, the disclosed describes a system that collects, aggregates and profiles bulk, geo-spatial mobility data from carrier networks, social media networks and distributed micro-networks (commercial centers, stadiums, etc.) for marketing and security applications. | 10-29-2015 |
20150317400 | RE-RANKING SEARCH RESULTS FOR LOCATION REFINING AND DIVERSITY - An online booking system allows users to search and book listings of goods or services. When a user searches for listings, the listings are ranked and scored based on a number of factors including the location and the price of the listing, the number and quality of reviews and the number of successful prior bookings. In some situations, the listing scores overly skew the top ranking results to a particular region. The listing scores may be modified to address this skewing of results. When diversity in search results is desired, the listing scores are modified such that the top ranking results that are located in a diverse set of regions. When granular relevance of search results is desired, the listing scores are modified such that the top ranking results are located in regions that are more relevant to the search than the region to which the results are skewed. | 11-05-2015 |
20150324374 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR SPATIAL DESCRIPTIONS IN AN OUTPUT TEXT - Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are described herein that are configured to express a linguistic description of set of points within a spatial area in an output text. In some example embodiments, a method is provided that comprises generating one or more descriptors and/or one or more combinations of descriptors that are configured to linguistically describe at least a portion of a set of points within a spatial area. The method of this embodiment may also include scoring each of the one or more descriptors and/or one or more combinations of the one or more descriptors. The method of this embodiment may also include selecting a descriptor or combination of descriptors that has the highest score when compared to other descriptors or combination of descriptors, providing the descriptor or combination of descriptors satisfies a threshold. | 11-12-2015 |
20150339307 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR HANDLING DATA CONTAINERS - The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method for handling a set of data containers of a file structure, which method is performed by one or more processors of a computing device. The method comprises determining a first set of coordinates on a digital boundary for each data container, and storing the first set of coordinates associated with each data container in a memory. Furthermore, each data container is arranged in a parent data container, and each first set of coordinates associated with a data container is representative of a default position of that data container on the digital boundary. The present invention also relates to a computing device and to a computer-readable medium. | 11-26-2015 |
20150339406 | DEVICE FOR CREATING FACILITY DISPLAY DATA, FACILITY DISPLAY SYSTEM, AND PROGRAM FOR CREATING DATA FOR FACILITY DISPLAY - A facility display data creating device is provided. The device includes: a first processing unit that retrieves a first facility information group from a first database; a second processing unit that retrieves a second facility information group from a second database; a third processing unit that determines whether any of facilities indicated by the first facility information group corresponds to any of the facilities indicated by the second facility information group; and a fourth processing unit that creates display data to display facility information by combining and sorting the first and second facility information groups in an order of distance from a predetermined position, and that creates the display data to display the facility information of the corresponding facilities adjacently to each other and independently of the order of distance on condition that the corresponding facilities are determined. | 11-26-2015 |
20150347576 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL AND AGGREGATION FROM INFERRED USER REASONING - The visual analytic system enables information retrieval within large text collections. Typically, users have to directly and explicitly query information to retrieve it. With this system and process, the reasoning of the user is inferred from the user interaction they perform in a visual analytic tool, and the appropriate information to query, process, and visualize is systematically determined. | 12-03-2015 |
20150356099 | NEIGHBORHOOD SIMILARITY TOOL AND METHOD - Embodiments of the disclosure are directed towards a neighborhood similarity tool and method for comparing two locations based on metrics relevant to characteristics that create a unique character for the first location and the second location. The characteristics include features reflecting location similarity and features reflecting home amenity similarity. The neighborhood similarity tool generates a similarity assessment that is provided for graphically displaying the similarity between two locations. | 12-10-2015 |
20150356183 | Recommending Objects To A User Of A Social Networking System Based On The Location Of The User - A social networking system recommends objects, such as pages, of the social networking system to users of the social networking system based on the location of the user. The social networking system obtains location information identifying the location of the user. Based on the location of the user, the social networking system identifies levels of geographical partitions encompassing the location of the user. For each level of geographical partitions, the social networking system accesses relevant objects of the social networking system with connections to users located within the level of geographical partitions. The social networking system may have determined a term frequency-inverse document frequency (tf-idf) value for each relevant object. Based on the number of connections and the tf-idf value associated with each relevant object, the social networking system merges the relevant objects accessed at each level into a set of relevant objects to recommend to the user. | 12-10-2015 |
20150363428 | LOCATION-BASED RANKING - Disclosed are various embodiments for generating a location-based ranking for a set of measurements. Client devices located within a geographic area are identified. The geographic area is expanded when the quantity of client devices identified within the geographic area fails to meet or exceed a predefined threshold. Additional client devices are identified within the expanded geographic area. A performance ranking of task measurements associated with a performance of a task performed by the client devices within the expanded geographic area is generated. | 12-17-2015 |
20150370811 | Dynamically Integrating Offline and Online Suggestions in a Geographic Application - An initial sequence of one or more symbols is received via a user interface. An attempt is made to send a request for online suggestions to a network server via a communication network, the request including at least one symbol in the initial sequence. When the initial sequence is less than n symbols long, and if no response to the request is received, the initial sequence is displayed without generating offline suggestions. When the initial sequence is at least n symbols long, and if no response to the request is received within a predetermined period of time, offline suggestions consistent with the initial sequence are generated using offline geospatial data stored in the computing device, and the offline suggestions are provided via the user interface. | 12-24-2015 |
20150379016 | TOP-K SEARCH USING RANDOMLY OBTAINED PAIRWISE COMPARISONS - A method and apparatus for determining a pre-determined number of top ranked items are described including accepting a set of unranked items, the pre-determined number, and a random selection of pairwise comparisons, creating a graph structure using the set of unranked items and the random selection of pairwise comparisons, wherein the graph structure includes vertices corresponding to the items and edges corresponding to a pairwise ranking and performing a depth-first search for each item that is an element of the set of unranked items for paths along the edges through the graph that are not greater than a length equal to the pre-determined number. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379017 | RANKING CONTENT USING LOCATION-BASED QUERY LOG ANALYSIS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for ranking content using location-based query log analysis. The method comprises: identifying a region defining an area of interest including identifying a plurality of content items that are associated with the region; evaluating query logs associated with users that submitted queries associated with the region to determine a ranking associated with the plurality of content items; receiving a request for content associated with the region; and providing one or more of the content items based at least in part on the ranking. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379027 | Searching Based On A Local Density Of Entities - A method executed by a computing device includes receiving a search criteria and location data from a user device in communication with the computing device, determining a user location based on the location data, and determining a geographical density of entities about the user location. The method optionally includes selecting one or more access mechanisms based on the search criteria and the geographical density. Each access mechanism, when executed by the user device, causes the user device to access a resource identified by the access mechanism. The method also optionally includes transmitting search results containing the one or more selected access mechanisms from the computing device to the user device. | 12-31-2015 |
20150379040 | GENERATING AUTOMATED TOURS OF GEOGRAPHIC-LOCATION RELATED FEATURES - Tours may be automatically generated that move between geographically-relevant imagery associated with a set of features at different geographic locations. By way of example, in response to searching for businesses or landmarks falling within a particular category and geographic area, a user may be taken on a visual tour of each business or landmark that was found as a result of the search. | 12-31-2015 |
20160004725 | DISPLAYING REGION-BASED SEARCH RESULTS - Providing search results includes: receiving a set of one or more search keywords; obtaining a plurality of search results that are generated in response to a search performed using the set of one or more search keywords, the plurality of search results each having corresponding region attribute information; establishing a set of one or more regions according to at least region attribute information of the plurality of search results; generating display information associated with the set of one or more regions, the display information comprising one or more of: textual information, graphic information, or geographical location information; and causing the display information to be displayed. | 01-07-2016 |
20160012068 | VENUE PREDICTION BASED ON RANKING | 01-14-2016 |
20160012069 | PROVIDING RESULTS TO PARAMETERLESS SEARCH QUERIES | 01-14-2016 |
20160019214 | HIGH-PERFORMANCE GRIDDED DATA STORAGE, ARRANGEMENT AND EXTRACTION - A high-performance gridded database protocol for storing, arranging, and extracting gridded data includes associating values for a single grid cell and storing them together to extract as many useful values as possible from a single read operation. Gridded data is stored in a geographically-indexed cylindrical grid that permits efficient data extraction for a particular location while maximizing efficiency of read operations. Cylinders of values are built by grouping grids that are related to each other so that when data for a location is to be extracted, a minimal number of read operations is needed to retrieve an entire stack of data relevant to the location. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019222 | Method of Displaying a Location Associated with a User - A method having the steps of receiving a user name associated with a profile on a social networking service; receiving user information associated with a user name; receiving public information associated with a user name; determining, by one or more processors, a user match; identifying a location that matches the location associated with the user name; and providing the location associated with a user name for display. | 01-21-2016 |
20160019230 | INDICATORS FOR ENTITIES CORRESPONDING TO SEARCH SUGGESTIONS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dynamically generating indicators of entity locations on an electronic map corresponding, for example, to a suggested search request. In one aspect, a method includes providing an electronic map of a geographic area for display on a user interface, receiving a character string entered into the user interface, the character string representing a partial search query, determining a suggested search request based on the character string, and identifying an entity responsive to the suggested search request and a geographic location for the identified entity. An indicator identifying the geographic location of the entity is provided for display on the electronic map. | 01-21-2016 |
20160026688 | Process Control Object Search - The invention relates to a method, searching arrangement and a computer program product for searching for process control objects in a process control system ( | 01-28-2016 |
20160034480 | Determining Labels from Similar Geographic Features - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, including a method that comprises: determining a target geographic feature that has insufficient targeting information associated therewith, the target geographic feature defining a location; determining one or more similar geographic features to the target geographic feature, each geographic feature including targeting information, the determining based on shared excess queries that are shared between geographic features that are determined to be similar to the target geographic feature, wherein each excess query is a query associated with and exceeds an expected query count for each of the similar geographic features and the target geographic feature; attributing targeting information associated with at least one of the one or more similar geographic features to the target geographic feature; and serving content responsive to queries that relate to the target geographic feature based at least in part on the attributed targeting information. | 02-04-2016 |
20160041983 | LOCAL QUERY RANKING FOR SEARCH ASSIST METHOD AND APPARATUS - One or more suggested search query completion alternatives are provided to the user and are selectable by the user in completing the user's search query. The suggested search query completion alternatives may comprise local business query completion suggestions, each of which may correspond to a local business, and general query completion suggestions, each of which may correspond to a general query. A ranking of local business query completion suggestions and general query completion suggestions may be used to identify a number of top-ranked query completion suggestions for presentation to the user. The ranking may use a popularity measure associated with each business and a frequency measure associated with each general query. A popularity associated with a local business may be weighted using a granularity weighting, which may be determined using a local query intent confidence level. | 02-11-2016 |
20160048525 | DENSITY DEPENDENT SEARCH FUNCTIONS - The present disclosure is related to a system and a method for varying search results of a user-based networking application. In one example, the disclosure includes a method that includes operations such as accessing from a processing element a results list responsive to an inquiry, determining by the processing element a population density corresponding to a selected location; and based on the population density, varying by the processing element one or more parameters of the results list for displaying on a user device. | 02-18-2016 |
20160048535 | INFORMATION SEARCHING METHOD - An information searching method for a group of websites comprises routing a first user to a first website in the group of websites according to a location of the first user, receiving a search request from the first user, deriving a location of the search request according to the location of the first user or location information inputted by the first user, deriving a plurality of searched targets according to the search request and information stored in a shared storage system of the group of websites, generating rankings of the plurality of searched targets according to distances between the location of the search request and a location of each of the plurality of the searched targets, and displaying the plurality of searched targets according to the rankings of the plurality of searched targets. | 02-18-2016 |
20160063003 | RANKING SEARCH RESULTS BY SOCIAL RELEVANCY - In one embodiment, a search request is received from a first user, the request including the first user's location. A set of search results and their corresponding geographic locations are determined in response to the search request. For each search result, a weighted rating value is determined based on user ratings provided by one or more second users, an affiliation coefficient between the first user and each second user providing a user rating, and a proximity coefficient based on the distance between the first user's location and the geographic location of the search result. The search results are ranked by their respective weighted rating values and sent to the first user. | 03-03-2016 |
20160063010 | SYSTEM AND METHOD OF TRACKING EVIDENCE TO ESTABLISH A CHAIN OF CUSTODY AND PREVENT LOSS - The present invention is a system and method for tracking evidence objects and sharing evidence data between agencies. The system and method may also record evidence object locations and the agency or persons responsible for the evidence objects in order to build or maintain a chain of custody record for an evidence object. | 03-03-2016 |
20160070703 | DISTANCE BASED ADJUSTMENTS OF SEARCH RANKING - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing local search results. In one aspect, a method includes receiving data specifying a set of documents ranked according to a first order based on search scores; determining a density score that is based on a number of local documents in the set of documents; determining for each local document: a proximity measure based on the geographic location of the user device and a geographic location specified for the local document and a distance factor based on the proximity measure for the local document and the density score for the set of documents; and adjusting, based at least in part on the distance factors of the local documents, a position of at least one of the local documents in the first order. | 03-10-2016 |
20160092455 | BUILDING QUERIES DIRECTED TO OBJECTS HOSTED ON CLOUDS - According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a query builder sends to a node in a cloud, a request for meta-data related to objects, and in response receives from the node, the meta-data specifying information related to objects exposed by the node. Upon receiving from a user a partial query and a current edit location during building of a corresponding complete query, the query builder determines, based on the received meta-data, the current edit location, and the partial query, a list of identifiers which are potential candidates for insertion at the current edit location. The query builder then displays the list of identifiers to the user, and receives a selection of an identifier from the displayed list. The query builder incorporates the selected identifier in the partial query at the current edit location to form a further developed query. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092456 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CREATING AND USING A LOCATION IDENTIFICATION GRID - A method and system for generating a location identifier using a location code and a grid coordinate. The location code corresponds to a defined geographical area, such as a postal code or an area code. A grid coordinate can be determined based on destination location information, such as an address, a GPS-determined position, or other reference to a specific physical location. The location identifier is combined with the location code to generate a location identifier, which can be encoded in a computer readable format and placed on items for use in a distribution network. The location identifier can be used to facilitate domestic or international distribution of items using a common format or addressing scheme. The domestic and foreign distribution networks read and interpret location identifiers in order to deliver items. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092518 | DYNAMIC RESULTS - Architecture that enables increased content presentation as part of the results where the results returned are insufficient to fill the results page being presented. An analysis component can be provided and configured to compute excess presentation space of a results area, where the results area comprises map results having content presented in association with a map. A content component presents additional content in the results area based on availability of the excess presentation space of the results area. The additional content and map results are limited to a maximum presentation space of the results area. The additional content includes portions of content individually relevant to corresponding map results and the portions of content are distributed in equivalent amounts of space among the map results. | 03-31-2016 |
20160098410 | METHODS, DEVICES AND COMPUTER SOFTWARE FOR FACILITATING SEARCHING AND DISPLAY OF LOCATIONS RELEVANT TO A DIGITAL MAP - A portable electronic device is disclosed comprising: data processing means; data repository containing data records representative of locations relevant to or within a digital map; and display means. The device further comprises means for monitoring a free text search string as it is input by a user of the device; querying the data repository for matching records and generating suggestions selectable by a user to adjust the search, based on the search string as it is input; displaying at least some of any matching records and suggestions on the display; and, in response to receipt of user input indicating a selection of a matching suggestion, adjusting the search accordingly. | 04-07-2016 |
20160103847 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING SEARCH KEYWORD AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE SUPPORTING THE SAME - A method for providing a search keyword and an electronic device supporting the same is provided. The method for providing, by an electronic device, a search keyword, the method includes displaying search results comprising at least one item in response to an entry of a first search keyword into a search keyword entry region, determining continuity between the first search keyword and a second search keyword which is a search keyword entered prior to the first search keyword, and storing at least one of the first search keyword and a search formula, in which the first search keyword and the second search keyword have been combined in a search keyword list, in response to the determination of the continuity between the first search keyword and the second search keyword. | 04-14-2016 |
20160103884 | QUESTION ANSWER SYSTEM USING PHYISICAL DISTANCE DATA - A question relating to an individual is received and context from the question is extracted. Subject matter criteria can be identified from the context of the question. A database containing history data that includes recorded positional data for physical objects relative to the location of the individual at the time of recording can be accessed and relevant physical objects from the history data can be identified based upon the subject matter criteria. A set of answers can be generated for the question from a corpus of data and ranked based upon the identified physical objects and physical distance between the individual and the relevant physical objects. | 04-14-2016 |
20160110372 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING LOCATION-BASED SOCIAL SEARCH SERVICE - Provided is a method of providing a location-based social search service. The method includes collecting, from a social network system, one or more pieces of visit history information including at least one of visit information of social search service users in association with at least a place and review data associated with the place, and storing the collected information; selecting a topic for each topic category from the visit history information; when a location-based query is received from at least one of the users, extracting a topic for each topic category from the location-based query; analyzing, for each topic category, a relationship between the topic extracted from the location-based query and the topic selected from the visit history information, and selecting at least one of the users as an expert. | 04-21-2016 |
20160117346 | SPATIAL ANALYTICS EXTENSIONS - Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for spatial analytics. The method may include generating a query including spatial context information, the query structured to include a predicate for the query and the spatial context information, the spatial context information including at least one of feature information or geometric information; and sending the query to a spatial query processor including a database in order to generate a query response in accordance with the predicate and spatial context information. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed. | 04-28-2016 |
20160132508 | RANKING LOCATION QUERY RESULTS BASED ON SOCIAL NETWORKING DATA - A location query engine in a social networking system provides users with a subset of candidate locations based on location query received from a user. The social networking system identifies candidate locations from stored location data that has one or more attributes matching at least one attribute of the location query. The candidate locations are ranked based on social data determined from a user profile associated with the user, and the subset of candidate locations is selected from the ranking and provided to the user. Examples of social data used for ranking the candidate locations include locations associated with other users connected to the user, locations associated with objects connected to the user and locations previously associated with the user. | 05-12-2016 |
20160132513 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING POI INFORMATION USING POI GROUPING - The present invention is directed to a device and method for providing POI information using POI grouping. According to the present invention, POI objects are collected in a preset POI category, a POI group is generated by grouping some of the POI objects using additional information included in each of the POI objects, related POI objects corresponding to a target POI object corresponding to a request from a user are extracted using the POI group, and information corresponding to the related POI objects is transmitted to the user. Related POI objects are extracted and then information is transmitted in response to a request from a user, and thus information about a location desired by the user is provided in a related group, thereby efficiently providing appropriate information. | 05-12-2016 |
20160140120 | DYNAMIC TAGGING RECOMMENDATION - In one embodiment, a geo-social networking system automatically tags one or more social contacts of a first user to a photo of the first user by ranking the social contacts based on spatial and temporal proximity to the first user, and in response to the first user's selection of one or more top ranked social contacts, associating the selected social contacts to the photo. | 05-19-2016 |
20160147789 | DYNAMIC DISPLAY OF CONTENT CONSUMPTION BY GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION - This disclosure relates to dynamic display of content consumption by geographic location. A processor recognizes content being consumed by a set of users, and identifies geographic locations of the consumption and a set of characteristics associated with the consumption. The processor further determines at least one filter for a user of the set of users and filters the set of consumption characteristics based on the at least one filter. | 05-26-2016 |
20160154809 | COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRACKING THE GEOGRAPHIC RELEVANCE OF WEBSITE LISTINGS AND PROVIDING GRAPHICS AND DATA REGARDING THE SAME | 06-02-2016 |
20160154826 | COMPUTER-VISION-ASSISTED LOCATION ACCURACY AUGMENTATION | 06-02-2016 |
20160179809 | SEMANTIC FILTERING IN DATA MATCHING | 06-23-2016 |
20160179815 | PROCESSING EVENT LOG DATA | 06-23-2016 |
20160179842 | Computerized Search Dependant on Spatial States | 06-23-2016 |
20160179843 | Approximating a User Location | 06-23-2016 |
20160179908 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CREATING AND SHARING PLANS THROUGH MULTIMODAL DIALOG | 06-23-2016 |
20160188733 | Generating Recommendations Based on Clustered Application States - A deep linking system includes a storage system and a recommendation engine. The storage system stores a plurality of application records. The storage system further stores a plurality of cluster records, each cluster record defining a respective cluster of a plurality of clusters, each cluster including a respective plurality of clustered state identifiers, whereby the state identifiers are clustered according to one or more features. The recommendation engine includes one or more processors configured to receive a recommendation request and to identify cluster records from the plurality of cluster records based on the recommendation request. The identified cluster records indicate one or more clusters to which the state identifier of the recommendation request is related. The one or more processors are further configured to select one or more state identifiers from the identified cluster records, generate recommendation results based on the selected state identifiers, and transmit the recommendation results to the remote device. | 06-30-2016 |
20160196271 | Translation of User Requests into Itinerary Solutions | 07-07-2016 |
20160196281 | Indexing and Querying Spatial Graphs | 07-07-2016 |
20160196284 | MOBILE TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR SEARCHING FOR IMAGE | 07-07-2016 |
20160196337 | ITERATIVE IMAGE SEARCH ALGORITHM INFORMED BY CONTINUOUS HUMAN-MACHINE INPUT FEEDBACK | 07-07-2016 |
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20160378787 | BROKER MEDIATED GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION SERVICE - A method includes receiving from a requestor search criteria for a geospatial information service. The requestor selects a dataset for use in providing the geospatial information service. A plurality of processes is determined, resulting in process-dataset solutions to the search criteria including the selected dataset. In particular, each process-dataset solution includes the selected dataset and a process of the determined plurality of processes. A list is provided to the requestor, the list including the plurality of process-dataset solutions. | 12-29-2016 |