PROVIDING SEARCH RESULTS TO A COMPUTING DEVICE

Systems and methods for providing search results to a mobile computing device are provided herein. One exemplary method includes receiving a search request from the mobile computing device, where the search request includes location data identifying a location of the mobile computing device. If the...

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Main Authors WEBER KARON, WOODCOCK KATRIKA
Format Patent
LanguageEnglish
Korean
Published 19.04.2012
Subjects
CALCULATING
COMPUTING
COUNTING
ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING
ELECTRICITY
PHYSICS
WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS
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Summary:Systems and methods for providing search results to a mobile computing device are provided herein. One exemplary method includes receiving a search request from the mobile computing device, where the search request includes location data identifying a location of the mobile computing device. If the search request includes an explicit search query, the method includes associating candidate search information derived from the explicit search query with the location identified by the location data of the search request. If the search request includes an explicit search query, the method also includes sending query-based search results to the mobile computing device. If the search request includes an implicit search query, the method includes sending location-based search results to the mobile computing device. The location-based search results are derived from candidate search information associated with the location identified by the location data.
Bibliography:Application Number: KR20117029418