US 8,135,735 B2Granted

Computerized system and method for tracking the geographic relevance of website listings and providing graphics and data regarding the same

AssigneeGeodex, LLC

InventorsJeremiah L. Johnson, Gregory A. Pool, Edward Tisdale, Brian McArthur, Chris Holmes

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Abstract

A computer-implemented method includes the steps of accessing, using one or more processors, data relating to visitors who have visited one or more websites, determining, using one or more processors, geographic areas corresponding to locations of the visitors, receiving, using one or more processors, one or more signals indicating a first request to provide at least a portion of data to be provided on a webpage, determining, using one or more processors, a geographic area from where the request originates; generating, using one or more processors, a subset of the data that pertains to the requested data based on: relevancy of the requested data to the geographic area from where the request originates, and relevancy of the requested data to the visitors that are located in or near the geographic area from where the request originates; and providing, using one or more processors, the subset of the data; and providing, using one or more processors, data that indicates whether or not the visitors found each item in the subset to be relevant to one or more geographic regions related to the geographic area from where the request originates.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method comprising:

(a) accessing, using one or more processors, data from visitor computers related to corresponding visitors who have visited one or more websites;
(b) determining, using one or more processors, visitor geographic areas corresponding to locations of the visitors;
(c) receiving from a requestor's computer, using one or more processors, one or more signals indicating a first request to provide at least a portion of data to be provided on a webpage, the at least a portion of data related to the one or more websites;
(d) determining, using one or more processors, a request geographic area from where the request originates;
(e) generating, using one or more processors, a subset of the data that pertains to the requested data based on:
i. relevancy of the requested data to the request geographic area, and
ii. relevancy of the requested data to the visitor geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area;
and
(f) providing, using one or more processors, the subset of the data;
(g) providing to the requestor's computer, using one or more processors, data that indicates whether or not the visitors found each item in the subset to be relevant to the visitor geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area;
(h) providing to the requestor's computer, using one or more processors, an interface for viewing the data that indicates whether or not the visitors found each item in the subset to be relevant to the visitor geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area, the interface comprising graphics indicating a number of times visitors have visited the one or more websites.

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A computer-implemented method comprising:

(a) accessing, using one or more processors, data from visitor computers related to corresponding visitors who have visited one or more websites;
(b) determining, using one or more processors, visitor geographic areas corresponding to locations of the visitors;
(c) receiving from a requestor's computer, using one or more processors, one or more signals indicating a first request to provide at least a portion of data to be provided on a webpage, the at least a portion of data related to the one or more websites;
(d) determining, using one or more processors, a request geographic area from where the request originates;
(e) generating, using one or more processors, a subset of the data that pertains to the requested data based on:
i. relevancy of the requested data to the request geographic area, and
ii. relevancy of the requested data to the visitor geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area;
(f) providing to the requestor's computer, using one or more processors, the subset of the data, wherein:
i. the subset is organized with each item of data associated with one of the visitor geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area,
ii. items of data in the subset that are most relevant to the request geographic area are associated with a first visitor geographic area;
and
iii. items of data in the subset that are less relevant to the geographic area from where the request originates are associated with a second visitor geographic area;
and
(g) providing to the requestor's computer, using one or more processors, an interface for viewing the data that indicates whether or not the visitors found each item in the subset to be relevant to the visitor geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area, the interface comprising graphics indicating a number of times visitors have visited the one or more websites.

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A system comprising one or more processors and computer readable media including computer processor-readable code that is read by the one or more computer processors so that the one or more computer processors perform a method comprising the following steps:

(a) accessing data from visitor computers related to corresponding visitors who have visited one or more websites;
(b) determining visitor geographic areas corresponding to locations of the visitors;
(c) receiving from a requestor's computer one or more signals indicating a first request to provide at least a portion of data to be provided on a webpage, the at least a portion of data related to the one or more websites;
(d) determining a request geographic area from where the request originates;
(e) generating a subset of the data that pertains to the data requested based on:
i. relevancy of the requested data to the request geographic area;
and
ii. relevancy of the requested data to the visitor geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area;
and
(f) providing the subset of the data;
(g) providing to the requestor's computer data that indicates whether or not the visitors found each item in the subset to be relevant to the visitor geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area;
(h) providing to the requestor's computer an interface for reorganizing the subset according to each of the one or more visitor geographic areas located inside and outside the request geographic area, the interface comprising a bar indicating the relevance of each set in the subset of data to the respective visitor geographic areas and graphics indicating a number of times visitors have visited the one or more websites, the graphics comprising one or more boxes, each of the one or more boxes corresponding to a respective one of the one or more websites and including a number that indicates the number of times visitors have visited the respective one of the one or more websites.

9 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 13/117,480Filed 27 May 2011 · continuation in part
Priority: 10 Jul 2009
Published: US 2011/0010336 A18 Sep 2011
Granted: 13 Mar 2012
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06F 16/00
Information retrieval
G06F 16/29
Of structured data, e.g. relational data: geographical information databases
G06F 16/9537
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
G06F
Computing and data processing

Family

Application12/501,122Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 10 Jul 2009
US 2011/0218961 A1Pre-grant publication · published 8 Sep 2011
US 2011/0010336 A1Published application
US 9,201,973 B2Related patent
US 8,135,735 B2This patent

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