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US 8,949,212 B1Granted
Location-based informaton display
OwnerHariharan Dhandapaniinventor
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method comprises receiving information indicating a location of a user. The location information is determined by a computing device carried by the user. The method further comprises performing a search of user content. The user content is associated with the user and is searched based on the location of the user. The method further comprises communicating results of the search to the computing device.
Claims10
A computer-implemented contextual-based information display service comprising:
- a processor and machine-readable storage media having instructions stored therein that, when executed by the processor, implement
- a user repository, the user repository having stored therein content received from a user, the user content including a time-displaced e-mail message including a location of interest, the time-displaced e-mail message is only accessible by the user as a result of searching the user repository;
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- a search engine, the search engine being configured to receive context keywords characterizing a current context of the user, wherein the context keywords were generated by the processor, and the search engine being configured to perform a search based on the context keywords to identify content relevant to the user in the current context, wherein the search identifies the time-displaced e-mail message based on the location of interest.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.