Patent Application Number: 2007342244
Filing Date: December 06, 2007Priority Date: January 05, 2007
Inventors: Keith David Saft, Meher Tendjoukian, Edward Stanley Ott, Marco Boerries, Paul Yiu
Applicants: Yahoo! Inc
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The computer-readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein determining the physical location further comprises:

if a location modifier is parsed from the search query, using the location modifier to determine a physical location; and

if a location modifier is unparsed from the search query, using at least one of a default location or a current location for the client device to determine the physical location.

Submitted by: Jimmy TiLast updated: over 2 years ago
Patent/Application # 7603360
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This patent describes a very similar idea of using information to provide more relevant search results and enhancements for many other network-based activities. Basically, search is refined with the knowledge of location and other information, and location information can be gathered via GPS module, GSM cell tower triangulation or be provided manually by the user when performing the search.
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