Abstract: An electronic album editing system for editing an electronic album in consideration of categories into which images are classifies is provided. The electronic album editing system includes: a first storage section for classifying a plurality of images included in a first electronic album into a plurality of categories; a second storage section for classifying a plurality of images included in a second electronic album into a plurality of categories; a category selection section for selecting one category of the images stored in the second storage section; a range acquiring section for acquiring the range of the image information corresponding to the one category; a category detection section for detecting a category corresponding to the range similar to the acquired range using range information previously stored in the first storage section; and an editing section for storing the image classified into the detected category in the second storage section.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage devices, for grouping search query refinements. One of the methods includes while receiving a text input into an input field by a user and before the user has submitted the text input to a search engine obtaining query suggestions based at least in part on the text input. The method includes grouping query suggestions based on a common query term shared by the query suggestions, wherein the query suggestions include terms that refine the common query term. The method includes transmitting a set of query suggestions to a client device for presentation, wherein the set includes the query suggestions that are presented as a group with the common query term presented in a prominent position and the refinement terms presented in subordinate positions and wherein the common query term and the refinement terms are each user-selectable.

Abstract: A system and computer program product are provided for providing location and spatial data about the physical environment. The system is configured to sense a tag provided in the environment by a mobile device; receive data from the tag at the mobile device, the data including location and spatial data relating to the physical environment of the tag; and represent the location and spatial data from the tag by the mobile device. In one embodiment, sensing a tag may include sensing a tag in the form of a machine-readable symbol; and receiving data from the tag receives data by processing an image of the machine-readable symbol by the mobile device. In another embodiment, sensing a tag includes sensing a tag in the form of a transmitter device; and receiving data from the tag receives data by receiving a signal by the mobile device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed which include receiving an indication of a first future date from a user, determining that one or more friends of the user in a social network are associated with one or more future locations including a second future date that matches the first future date, displaying a geographic map including a friend representation corresponding to each of the one or more future locations where the one or more friend of the user are going to be physically present, the friend representation including a number of friends of the user that are physically present at the respective future location on the first future date, receiving, from the user, an indication at one of the friend representations, and displaying a list including at least one of one or more friends associated with the future location and one or more events associated with the future location.

Abstract: Apps may be tagged with location data when they are used. Mobile device may anonymously submit app usage data. Aggregated app usage data from many mobile devices may be analyzed to determine apps that are particularly relevant to a given location (i.e., exhibiting a high degree of localization). Analysis may include determining the app usage intensity, whether hotspots exist or not at a given location, the spatial entropy of a particular app, the device populations in a particular area, etc. Based on the localized app analysis, apps may be ranked according to local relevance, and, based on this ranking, app recommendations may be provided to a user.

Abstract: A technique is disclosed for presenting possible check-in venues to a mobile device user, such as for the purpose of checking in with social networking services such as Foursquare. The disclosed technique operates by training a model during an initial training sequence. The trained model, representing a learned hypothesis, describes venues that are ranked according to their relevance to users who are also described by the model. During a subsequent run-time sequence, the system receives real-time geolocation data that represents users, wherein the data includes user geolocation and the level of accuracy of the geolocation. The system generates a set of candidate venues, ranks the generated candidate venues by applying the learned hypothesis, which can be dependent on the level of accuracy, and presents the user with the ranked venues as possible check-in venues. The user can then select the venue actually being checked into from the presented check-in venues.

Abstract: Methods for providing group swarm metrics and content are described herein. In different aspects, the methods may include compiling a content access metric. The methods may also include determining a threshold metric for a user. Further, the methods may include generating a notification message for the user when the compiled content access metric reaches the threshold metric. The methods may additionally include delivering the notification message to the user. The techniques described herein may enable the user to retrieve the content.

Abstract: Disclosed are a system and method for creating multi-angle views of an object-of-interest from images stored in a dataset. A user specifies the location of an object-of-interest. As the user virtually navigates through the locality represented by the image dataset, his current virtual position is determined. Using the user's virtual position and the location of the object-of-interest, images in the image dataset are selected and interpolated or stitched together, if necessary, to present to the user a view from his current virtual position looking toward the object-of-interest. The object-of-interest remains in the view no matter where the user virtually travels. From the same image dataset, another user can select a different object-of-interest and virtually navigate in a similar manner, with his own object-of-interest always in view. The object-of-interest also can be “virtual,” added by computer-animation techniques to the image dataset.

Abstract: The effectiveness of targeted content delivery can be directly linked to the number and type of known user characteristics. A way of improving targeted content delivery can be to infer unknown user characteristics from known information. The present technology utilizes the type of and frequency of a user's visits to one or more predefined location zones to infer unknown user characteristics. The type of location zone and the frequency of visits to the location zone can be combined with other known user characteristics, such as declared user characteristics, to infer one or more characteristics. Additionally, the user's visits to one or more predefined location zones can be used assign a user to one or more targeted segments and to prioritize the segments assigned to the user. Based on the declared and inferred user characteristics and the segment assignments, targeted content can be selected for delivery to the user.

Abstract: Systems and methods sort location dependent information based on selecting multiple groups of information according to location, ordering the groups based on location, and ordering the information within the groups based on at least one or more other criteria. The size(s) of the areas used to select the groups may be predetermined, or dynamically determined (e.g., based on clustering of information along distance to a location of interest).

Abstract: A method includes the steps of: providing a computer based raster data search system; providing raster data; providing one or more search models as a search criteria; receiving as input the raster data; transforming by computer the raster data into a mathematical representation of the appearance of the raster data; storing the mathematical representation of the appearance of the raster data as a set of models in a database; comparing by computer at least one search model to the set of models in the database; and generating a result which indicates a likelihood of a similarity to the search criteria in the raster data. A system to perform the method is also described.

Abstract: Technology is generally described for computing paths between geographical localities. In some examples, the technology can receive a request for a path between two or more geographical localities, and compute a path based at least on a popularity rating of intermediate geographical localities.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for visualizing results from a text search engine are described. A query term is first received. A first set of results is generated based on the query term using a database storing documents, and an index of documents, each document having at least one structural element. Structural elements associated with the first set of results are retrieved. A second set of results is generated based a predefined relationship between the structure elements and the query term. A visualization of the second set of results is displayed.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for processing user search request information and for updating the presentation of a map based on the processed search request information. User search information may be associated with one or more locations shown by the map. Each location associated with the user search information may be highlighted on the map. As the user refines the user search information, the map may be automatically updated such that only the locations associated with the refined user search information may be highlighted. A textual list of location names associated with highlighted locations may be concurrently displayed with the map. When a user selects one of the names in the list, the highlighted location associated with that name may be visually distinguished from the other highlighted locations.

Abstract: Systems and methods for a DNS management system utilize a distance-based and/or a performance-based A record. A DNS management system of embodiments receives a request from a client for an IP address associated with a domain name. A database of IP address location records is queried to determine a geographic location of the client in operation according to embodiments. An A record corresponding to the geographically closest available server node may thereafter be delivered to the client. A system operable according to embodiments may additionally or alternatively monitor the performance of available servers and deliver an A record corresponding to the best performing local server.

Abstract: Example embodiments relate to an apparatus for searching and presenting information associated with geographical position data. The apparatus includes an input device including a user interface. The user interface includes at least a first input text box configured to receive a first text item, wherein said first text item is a general search text item, at least a second input text box configured to receive a second text item, wherein said second text item is a geographical position text item, and a user actuation input device. The apparatus further includes a database selection engine and a database search engine configured to perform a database search based on said at least first and second text input, and an output device configured to present information associated with geographical position data based upon data retrieved from a database selection engine or a database search engine.

Abstract: A mobile station is arranged to determine its location, which is searched against street addresses from a database, and at least one matching street address is retrieved. The street address is searched on the mobile station and/or over the network. The search engine conducts a search in the mobile station file system and/or the Internet and/or a file system over the network with the at least one query term, —at least one search result is arranged to be displayed to user on the screen of the mobile station. This facilitates on-demand effortless Mobile Internet Search that allows the users to access opportunities that they did not know about, or would not have had time to find out about with minimum effort as the software of the mobile phone is scanning the Internet and information pages for these opportunities and displaying the results dynamically on the mobile phone screen.

Abstract: In response to a search query having a search term received from a client, a current language locale is determined. A state machine is built based on the current language locale, where the state machine includes one or more nodes to represent variance of the search term having identical meaning of the search term. Each node of the state machine is traversed to identify one or more postings lists of an inverted index corresponding to each node of the state machine. One or more item identifiers obtained from the one or more postings list are returned to the client, where the item identifiers identify one or more files that contain the variance of the search term represented by the state machine.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for generating an online listing, such as a yellow pages listing, that includes information about an object, such as a business, and also includes at least one image of the structure containing the object. For example, the image may be a digital image of the store front of a business taken at a street view. Additionally, a user may select an image from a plurality of images that the user perceives as being an appropriate representative image for the business. Based on votes received a default representative image may be identified that is provided in response to a request for information about the business.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for generating additional information about moving picture content, including: comparing image feature information about each image frame in moving picture content with image feature information about each image frame in web information, searching for an image frame in the moving picture content, the image frame matching the image frame in the web information, determining location information about the found image frame in the moving picture content, and generating additional information by use of the determined location information and the web information.

Abstract: A mobile communication device for identifying a location to be named comprising a position locator component configured to determine a location of a user and a communication interface component configured to provide the location for use in determining user-specific location information including at least one of a number of times and an amount of time the user is present at or near the location. The location naming component is configured to receive an identification of the location as a location of interest. The location naming component is configured to provide a prompt for naming the location of interest for presentation by a graphical user interface component in association with received suggested name information. The location naming component is configured to receive name information for naming the location. The graphical user interface component is configured to present the name information for the location of interest on the mobile communication device.

Abstract: Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to generate a ranked set of possible locations of a user based on user information and a user location. Some examples may generate a first set of locations that are near a location associated with the user. Features may be extracted from information about the user and the first set of locations for use by a ranking model. A second set of locations may be generated by the ranking model based on the extracted features and the first set of locations. In some cases, the second set of locations may be a ranked set of one or more of the locations of the first set of locations.

Abstract: A method for generating data enabling searching for content complements intended for terminals of a telecommunication network is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes selecting content from a terminal, generating identification information of the selected content, sending a marker generation request to a content complement server, and, in response to receiving the request, generating and saving a marker at the content complement server. The request includes the user's identification data and the identification information of the selected content. The marker includes the user's identification data, the identification information of the selected content, and search characteristics data enabling an additional search for content related to the selected content. A system, a terminal, and a server associated with the method are also provided.

Abstract: A server includes: an input information database 14 for storing input information in which position information indicating a geographical position and a user ID specifying a user having performed an input operation relating to the geographical position are associated with each other; and an association unit 18 for, when it is determined that the plurality of common users performed the input operation in the predetermined number or more of common geographical ranges, associating multiple pieces of input information, which correspond to the plurality of common users and respectively include pieces of position information indicating geographical positions included in a common geographical range, with each other by extracting the multiple pieces of input information and then allocating a common identifier to the extracted multiple pieces of input information, for each of the predetermined number or more of common geographical ranges.

Abstract: Geotagging is the process of adding geographical identification metadata to photographs and is a form of geospatial metadata. The current invention presents a method for determining the popularity/attractiveness of certain geographical areas by calculating the densities of the available photographs (or availability of photographs) with geodata corresponding to these geographical areas.

Abstract: Where multiple client devices are synchronized to multiple, asynchronous instances of a time-based media presentation such as live and time-shifted views of a television broadcast, interactive content can be delivered to each one of the various devices at a particular time (or “time offset”) within the presentation independent of when each instance of the time-based media presentation is viewed.

Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein generally disclose how to provide geocoding results in response to location search queries. A geographical information system receives a search query for a map feature and identifies both web search results and geocoding results that are associated with the search query. The geographical information system determines which geocoding result to return based on the identified web search results.

Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate generally to ranking geographic locations based on perceived user interest. More specifically, a database of three-dimensional models of buildings or other architectural features may be used to determine the level of user interest in a particular location and accordingly rank, for example, geographic locations or web or map search results with local intent. For example, various signals such as the number of models created by users for a particular location, the number of clicks or requests for the models of the particular location, the number of POIs contained within or associated with the models associated with the particular geographic location, number of categories associated with a model associated with the geographic location, number of embedded views or views of the models associated with the particular location on other web sites, and the age of the models associated with the particular geographic location.

Abstract: A method and system for backing up and restoring data. First, a full backup is performed to create a full dataset. Thereafter, incremental or differential datasets may be created by incremental or differential backups, respectively. When a new full dataset is needed, instead of performing a full backup, a previous full dataset may be combined with subsequent incremental or differential datasets to create the new full dataset. The new full dataset may be created on a computer other than the computer which hosts the data of the previous full dataset. The new full dataset may be used for offsite storage or to quickly restore data in the event of a failure or corruption of a computer's file system.

Abstract: A mobile station is arranged to determine its location, which is searched against street addresses from a database, and at least one matching street address is retrieved. The street address is searched on the mobile station and/or over the network. The search engine conducts a search in the mobile station file system and/or the Internet and/or a file system over the network with the at least one query term, —at least one search result is arranged to be displayed to user on the screen of the mobile station. This facilitates on-demand effortless Mobile Internet Search that allows the users to access opportunities that they did not know about, or would not have had time to find out about with minimum effort as the software of the mobile phone is scanning the Internet and information pages for these opportunities and displaying the results dynamically on the mobile phone screen.

Abstract: An apparatus and a method for searching for resources in an e-book are provided. The apparatus includes a memory having a resource-to-location mapping table in which information about resources of the e-book is mapped to location information that matches the resources of the e-book, and a controller for creating the resource-to-location mapping table and for controlling a search for a resource of the e-book that matches a location in the resource-to-location mapping table and a display of the detected resource of the e-book.

Abstract: One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for providing search results for presentation as a function of the availability of respective providers comprised in the search results. For example, a user may perform a search for local groceries stores and stores within a 5 miles geographic radius of the user may be identified and filtered/distinguished as a function of the availability of respective stores. Such availability may be a function of whether respective stores are open or closed at the time of the search, whether respective stores are expected to be open or closed at an estimated time of arrival (e.g., based upon travel time from the user's location at the time of the search to respective stores), and/or parking considerations (e.g., parking availability, type of parking, and/or parking cost) at respective stores.

Abstract: An aspect of the invention provides a system including: an SOI database that stores registered SOI data; a geographical information similarity determination module that determines if there is at least one set of registered SOI data whose geographical information is the same as or similar to that of the new SOI data by comparing the geographical information of the new SOI data and the geographical information of the registered SOI data; and an SOI database registration module that merges the registered SOI data of the SOI database with the geographical information or the non-geographical information of the new SOI data and stores the merged data in the SOI database if there is a set of registered SOI data whose geographical information is the same as or similar to that of the new SOI data as a result of determination of the geographical information similarity determination module.

Abstract: A mobile communication device for identifying a location to be named comprising a position locator component configured to determine a location of a user and a communication interface component configured to provide the location for use in determining user-specific location information including at least one of a number of times and an amount of time the user is present at or near the location. The location naming component is configured to receive an identification of the location as a location of interest. The location naming component is configured to provide a prompt for naming the location of interest for presentation by a graphical user interface component in association with received suggested name information. The location naming component is configured to receive name information for naming the location. The graphical user interface component is configured to present the name information for the location of interest on the mobile communication device.

Abstract: A method for providing recommended products from a customer relationship management (CRM) system is disclosed. The method embodiment includes receiving from a user system a message including a request for a product relevant to a customer affiliated with an enterprise, where the message also includes information identifying the customer, the enterprise, and/or a product purchased by the customer. The method also includes identifying suggested products based on information managed by the CRM system and related to the customer, the enterprise and/or the purchased product. A relevance score is determined for each of the suggested products based on relevance factors and social media influence factors, and recommended products are selected based on the relevance scores of the recommended products. Information identifying the recommended products is included in a response message that is transmitted to the user system.

Abstract: System and method for presenting geolocated relevance-based content. In one example, presence of a user is detected at a location. A plurality of search queries associated with the location are obtained. At least one search query is identified from the plurality of search queries based on information associated with the user. A search result is then generated based on the at least one identified search query to the user.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for providing customized content to users based on their location. In one embodiment, for each of one or more content providers, a customized content delivery function receives information from the content provider defining a number of geographic shapes selecting corresponding geographic areas. Preferably, each of the geographic shapes overlaps at least one other of the geographic shapes and is assigned an importance level. For each geographic shape, the content provider defines one or more tags for the geographic shape and assigns a weight to each of the one or more tags. Thereafter, when a request is received from a requestor, one or more content items are selected for delivery to the requestor based on the geographic shapes, the tags and corresponding weights for the geographic shapes, and the location of the requestor.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal and a photo search method thereof capable of searching and displaying photos shared by the cloud and SNS systems in connection with a specific location on a camera view using augmented reality. To this end, according to the present disclosure, when a photo search function is selected on an augmented reality based camera view, photo information associated with at least one location on which the focus of the camera view is placed is searched from a network system to sort and display the searched photo information on the camera view, thereby allowing the user to conveniently search photos associated with old memories.

Abstract: A method of optimizing digital content for searches performed on mobile devices. The method may include receiving digital content that includes one or more pages and analyzing the digital content to determine one or more properties of the digital content that relate to placement of a reference to the digital content in mobile search results. The method may also include analyzing the properties of the digital content to determine one or more optimizations to apply to the digital content to improve the placement of the reference to the digital content in the mobile search results. In addition, the method may include generating one or more recommendations for adapting the digital content based on the optimizations.

Abstract: A wireless communication system may include a server, and a wireless communications device communicating with the server. The wireless communications device may include a processor, and an input device cooperating therewith to accept a search query. The server may provide search results to the wireless communications device based upon the search query from the wireless communications device. The search results may include a search fact associated with the search query. The server may generate the search fact based upon location data, and a motion value associated with the wireless communications device.

Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing locations and distances related to resources referenced in search results. Location data for an entity are processed to determine physical locations of an entity. The physical locations are used to generate a coverage area data, and the location data and coverage area data are associated with Internet resources of the entity. The coverage area data and location data are used to filter search results and adjust the rank of individual search results that are responsive to a query associated with a query location.

Abstract: Method and system for merging two objects in a business intelligence system. A first member is selected in the business intelligence system, the business intelligence system includes a user space, a content space, a data space, a master-data space and a metadata space. A relationship between the first member and a plurality of members selected from the group consisting of the user space, the content space, the data space, the master-data space, the metadata space is determined, which results in determined relationships for every member in the business intelligence system. Two members in the content space are then selected. Relationships between the two members in the plurality of determined relationships are traversed to determine the members in the traversed relationships. A preference is assigned to the members in the traversed relationships with close or exact relationships; and the members with the preference are merged.

Abstract: An MMR system includes an analytics module for monitoring and analyzing the creation and usage of visual content search. The analytics module is part of a MMR gateway and provides a mechanism for administrators to determine the usage patterns and other information about users of the MMR system. This information is fed back to other components of the MMR system to improve its operation. The analytics module comprises a monitoring module, a usage database, an access analysis module and a presentation module. The monitoring module is coupled to other components of the MMR gateway and collects information about retrieval request, image queries, context information and recognition results. The usage database stores the information collected by the monitoring module. The access analysis module performs queries on the usage database and analyzes the results. The output of the access analysis module is provided to the presentation module for presentation or output to other systems and users.

Abstract: Methods and systems for improving user search experience with a search engine by providing a way for associated users to create and share personalized lists of local search results and/or advertisements through endorsements of such local search results and/or ads. Local search endorsements can be used to personalize the search engine's ranking of local search results by offering a way for users to re-rank the results for themselves and for those who trust them.

Abstract: The techniques describe recommending mobile query suggestions by integrating time and location in response to a query input submitted on a mobile computing device. A process constructs a bipartite graph by extracting users that submitted queries from mobile search logs and associating time and location with the submitted queries. The process determines the users are similar having submitted similar queries at similar times and at similar locations. The process receives a query input associated with a current time and a current location of a mobile computing device. Next, the process computes a relatedness of candidate queries to the query input based on a similarity between the user groups having submitted both the candidate queries and the query input, and distances of times and locations at which the user previously issued the query input and the candidate queries.

Abstract: One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that automatically determines if a location is a standalone location, which can be unambiguously identified by a name for the location alone. During operation, the system determines a name score for the location which indicates a popularity of the name for the location. The system also obtains a signature for the location, wherein the signature is a set of combinations of location specifiers, wherein each combination of location specifiers refers to the location. The system then determines a signature score for the location which indicates a popularity of the signature for the location. Finally, the system determines whether the location is a standalone location based on the name score and the signature score.

Abstract: Ranking of geographic information includes receiving information about geographic features, identifying documents based on the information, each document being associated with one of the geographic features, and generating a rank score for each document based on one or more properties of the geographic feature associated with the document.

Abstract: A terminal stores in a storage section content distributed from a server and a data access power for deleting a service that differ from a service to which the content belongs in association with each other. The terminal determines, when the stored content requests the deletion of the differing service that is indicated by the statement contained in the content, whether or not the content and the data access power are stored in the storage section in association with each other. When the terminal has determined that the content that requested the deletion of the differing service and the data access power are stored in the storage section in association with each other, the terminal deletes content that belongs to the differing service from the storage section.

Abstract: A navigation database comprises a first set of elements comprising airports, beacons and waypoints; a second set of elements comprising procedures; and a third set of elements comprising routes. The method comprises a step of creating a pair of indices comprising an index comprising the elements of the three sets; identifier, a type and a functional identifier; a first list of pointers to the memory address where the elements are stored; a pre-index comprising a list of code, each code corresponding to the first characters of each element, the codes being indexed by a family of attributes of elements; a second list of pointers to the identifier of the first element in the first index.

Abstract: A search engine and/or news aggregator considers events and stories described in electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users.