Back to results
US 2010/0250552 A1Published application
Indexing documents according to geographical relevance
AssigneeGoogle Inc.
InventorDaniel EGNOR
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A local search engine efficiently indexes documents relevant to a geographical area by indexing, for each document, multiple location identifiers that collectively define an aggregate geographic region. When creating the index, the search engine may determine a set of geographical areas surrounding a geographical area relevant to a document and associate references to the set of geographical areas with the document index.
Claims2
A method for indexing a document comprising:
- determining a location associated with the document;
- determining a plurality of locations surrounding the location associated with the document;
- and
- indexing the document to include a reference to the location and the plurality of locations surrounding the location.
1 more element
2-24. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.