Relevancy of virtual markers
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsLeonard Smith, Gur Kimchi, Avi Bar-Zeev, Blaise H. Aguera y Arcas
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Abstract
Aspects relate to providing markers related to a mapping application, wherein the provided markers are selectively modified as a function of the relevancy of the markers to a person that has requested the markers. The relevancy is determined based on one or more indicators included in the marker. The indicators answer questions related to who, what, when, where, and why. Markers can be ranked based on the association between the person that requested the marker and the person that provided the marker. Further, a copy of an original marker can be modified to conform with the relevancy of the marker to the requestor.
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A system that manages markers as a function of a relevancy of the markers, comprising:
- an input component that receives a marker and at least one indicator associated with the marker;
- a consumption component that receives a request for the marker and the indicator;
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- a purge component that automatically modifies the marker as a function of the indicator and the request the purge component outputs the modified marker, wherein the indicator associated with the marker includes a user identity, a time stamp, a location, a reason, what the marker relates to, or combinations thereof.
A method for proving a relevant marker within a mapping application, comprising:
- receiving one or more markers associated with a geographic location, the marker comprises at least one indicator;
- accepting a request for information associated with the geographic location;
- retrieving at least one marker related to the geographic location,
- evaluating relevancy of the at least one indicator to the requestor;
- modifying the at least one marker as a function of the relevancy;
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- presenting the modified marker in response to the request.
A computer-readable medium having stored thereon the following computer executable components:
- a receiver component that accepts one or more markers associated with a geographic location, the marker comprises at least one indicator that relates to when the marker was provided, who provided the marker, why the marker was provided, what the marker relates to, where the marker can be found in a mapping application, or combinations thereof, the marker and indicator are retained in a storage media;
- a consumption component that receives a request for information associated with the geographic location and retrieves a copy of the maker and indicator from the storage media;
- a purge component that evaluates relevancy of the at least one indicator to the requestor and modifies a portion of the at least one marker as a function of the relevancy, the relevancy includes an association between the requestor and a provider of at least one marker;
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- a user interface that outputs the modified marker in a mapping application in response to the request.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.