User characteristic influenced search results
AssigneeMillennial Media, Inc.
InventorsJorey Ramer, Adam Soroca, Dennis Doughty
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Abstract
Improved mobile content presentation capabilities are disclosed for mobile communications facilities, such as cell phones. Information relating to the user characteristics associated with a mobile communication facility and other capabilities are employed to improve the presentation and relevance of mobile content to appropriate or desirable mobile communication facilities.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method, comprising:
- receiving, at a search facility, a search request from a mobile communication facility operated by a user, wherein the search request is received over a cellular telephony infrastructure associated with a carrier;
- receiving, at the search facility and from the carrier, information relating to previous search queries entered by the user via the mobile communication facility;
- and
- determining one or more locations associated with the user based upon the information, received from the carrier, relating to the previous search queries entered by the user via the mobile communication facility.
A system comprising a computer having a computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a processor of the computer, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a search facility, a search request from a mobile communication facility operated by a user, wherein the search request is received over a cellular telephony infrastructure associated with a carrier;
- and
- determining one or more locations associated with the user based upon information, received from the carrier, relating to previous search queries entered by the user via the mobile communication facility.
A non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a search facility, a search request from a mobile communication facility operated by a user, wherein the search request is received over a cellular telephony infrastructure associated with a carrier;
- receiving, at the search facility and from the carrier, information relating to previous search queries entered by the user via the mobile communication facility;
- and
- determining one or more locations based upon the information, received from the carrier, relating to the previous search queries entered by the user via the mobile communication facility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.