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Provision of location information with search queries from location unaware devices to increase user interaction performance

  • US 10,108,728 B2
  • Filed: 08/22/2015
  • Issued: 10/23/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/22/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A location-unaware computing device comprising:

  • one or more processing units;

    a network interface; and

    one or more computer-readable media comprising computer-executable instructions which, when executed by the one or more processing units, cause the location-unaware computing device to;

    obtain, through a short-range communicational connection established between the location-unaware computing device and a location-aware computing device, location information indicative of a geographic location of the location-aware computing device;

    store the obtained location information on a local storage device communicationally coupled to the location-unaware computing device;

    andutilize the stored location information for a user search query that implicitly specifies a locational aspect, the user search query being transmitted from the location-unaware computing device to a search engine through a network to which the location-unaware computing device and the search engine are both communicationally coupled;

    wherein the location-unaware computing device and the location-aware computing device are communicationally coupled to the network independently of one another.

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