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US 9,870,425 B2Granted
Localized selectable location and/or time for search queries and/or search query results
AssigneeExcalibur IP, LLC
InventorsLars Erik Holmquist, Guilherme Chapiewski
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Abstract
Briefly, embodiments of methods or systems providing a mobile device user with localized and/or time-selectable search query terms and/or search results are provided.
Claims19
A method comprising, at a mobile computing device:
- acquiring wireless signals to compute an estimated position of the mobile computing device;
- receiving a user input comprising a requested time period;
- obtaining, from a database via a wireless communications channel, suggested query terms or suggested query results, or a combination thereof, the database to be generated responsive to queries submitted to a search engine or associated query results for the requested time period, wherein the generated database comprises more popular submitted queries determined for a particular localized region to include the estimated position or a particular localized time period, or a combination thereof, based at least in part on the particular localized region or the particular localized time period, or the combination thereof, wherein the more popular submitted queries for the particular localized region or the localized time period, or the combination thereof, include submitted queries that comprise identified n-grams based at least in part on the particular localized region, the localized time period, or the combination thereof;
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- emphasizing, on a display of the mobile computing device, one or more of the obtained suggested query terms or suggested query results, or the combination thereof, and multiple user-selectable localized time periods comprising at least the requested time period.
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A method comprising at a mobile computing device:
- acquiring wireless signals to compute an estimated position of the mobile computing device;
- receiving a user input comprising a requested time period;
- obtaining, from a database via a wireless communications channel, suggested query terms or suggested query results, or a combination thereof, the database to be generated responsive to searching a database, the database being of more popular queries submitted to a search engine and associated query results for a particular localized region to include the estimated position or particular localized time periods comprising the requested time period, or a combination thereof, based at least in part on the particular localized region or the particular localized time periods, or the combination thereof, wherein the more popular submitted queries for the particular localized region or the localized time period, or the combination thereof, include submitted queries that comprise identified n-grams based at least in part on the particular localized region, the localized time period, or the combination thereof;
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- emphasizing, on a display of the mobile computing device, one or more of the obtained suggested query terms or suggested query results, or the combination thereof, and multiple user-selectable localized time periods comprising at least the requested time period.
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An article comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium comprising instructions stored thereon which are executed by a special-purpose computer apparatus to:
- direct acquisition of wireless signals to compute an estimated position of a mobile device;
- process a received a user input to comprise a requested time period;
- obtain, from a database via a wireless communications channel, suggested query terms or suggested query results, or a combination thereof, the database to be generated responsive to queries submitted to a search engine and associated query results for the requested time period,
- wherein generating to comprise a determination of more popular submitted queries for a particular localized region to include the estimated position or a particular localized time period, or a combination thereof, based, at least in part, on the position of the mobile device or the particular localized time period, or the combination thereof, wherein the more popular submitted queries for the particular localized region, or the localized time period, or the combination thereof, are to include submitted queries that are to comprise n-grams to be identified to be based at least in part on the particular localized region the localized time period, or the combination thereof;
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- emphasize, via a display of a mobile device, one or more of the obtained suggested query terms or suggested query results, or the combination thereof, and multiple user-selectable localized time periods comprising at least the requested time period.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.