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 system of claim 7, wherein the location modifier further comprises implicit location information, and wherein the physical location is determined based on modifying at least one of a current or a default location of the client device based on the implicit location information.

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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