System and methods for providing statstically interesting geographical information based on queries to a geographic search engine
First Claim
1. An interface program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of:
- accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a domain identifier identifying a domain and a free text query entry;
in response to accepting said search criteria from the user, receiving a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, wherein each document of the set of documents;
(a) contains anywhere within the document information that is responsive to the free text query entry; and
(b) contains anywhere within the document location-related information that refers to a location within the domain;
requesting and receiving a result from an additional query based at least in part on the domain identifier, the result not being a document-location tuple; and
displaying a visual representation of at least a subset of the document-location tuples and a visual representation of the result of the additional query on the display device.
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Abstract
Under one aspect, an interface program stored on a computer-readable medium causes a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of: accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a domain identifier identifying a domain and a free text query entry; in response to accepting said search criteria from the user, receiving a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, wherein each document: (a) contains information that is responsive to the free text query entry; and (b) contains location-related information that refers to a location within the domain; requesting and receiving a result from an additional query based at least in part on the domain identifier, the result not being a document-location tuple; and displaying a visual representation of at least a subset of the document-location tuples and a visual representation of the result of the additional query on the display device.
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34 Claims
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1. An interface program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of:
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accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a domain identifier identifying a domain and a free text query entry;
in response to accepting said search criteria from the user, receiving a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, wherein each document of the set of documents;
(a) contains anywhere within the document information that is responsive to the free text query entry; and
(b) contains anywhere within the document location-related information that refers to a location within the domain;
requesting and receiving a result from an additional query based at least in part on the domain identifier, the result not being a document-location tuple; and
displaying a visual representation of at least a subset of the document-location tuples and a visual representation of the result of the additional query on the display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method of displaying information about documents, the method comprising:
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accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a domain identifier identifying a domain and a free text query entry;
in response to accepting said search criteria from the user, receiving a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, wherein each document of the set of documents;
(a) contains anywhere within the document information that is responsive to the free text query entry; and
(b) contains anywhere within the document location-related information that refers to a location within the domain;
requesting and receiving a result from an additional query based at least in part on the domain identifier, the result not being a document-location tuple; and
displaying a visual representation of at least a subset of the document-location tuples and a visual representation of the result of the additional query on a display device. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An interface program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of:
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identifying a plurality of statistically interesting phrases occurring within a plurality of documents of a corpus of documents, the statistically interesting phrases having a statistical property that distinguishes them from other phrases in the documents;
identifying locations referenced within the identified statistically interesting phrases;
displaying a visual representation of a domain, the domain encompassing at least a subset of the identified locations;
displaying a visual representation of at least a subset of the identified locations; and
displaying at least a subset of the identified statistically interesting phrases, each of the displayed phrases visually associated with a corresponding visual representation of the at least a subset of the identified locations. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23)
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24. A method of displaying information about documents, the method comprising:
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identifying a plurality of statistically interesting phrases occurring within a plurality of documents of a corpus of documents, the statistically interesting phrases having a statistical property that distinguishes them from other phrases in the documents;
identifying locations referenced within the identified statistically interesting phrases;
displaying a visual representation of a domain, the domain encompassing at least a subset of the identified locations;
displaying a visual representation of at least a subset of the identified locations; and
displaying at least a subset of the identified statistically interesting phrases, each of the displayed phrases visually associated with a corresponding visual representation of the at least a subset of the identified locations. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 28)
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27. An interface program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer system with a display device to perform the functions of:
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identifying a plurality of locations referenced within a plurality of documents of a corpus of documents;
for each location of the plurality of locations, computing a value score based on a frequency of occurrences of references to the location in the corpus of documents;
displaying a visual representation of a domain, the domain encompassing the locations; and
displaying a visual indicator on the visual representation of the domain, the visual indicator representing locations of the plurality of locations having a value score exceeding a predetermined value score.
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29. A method of displaying information about documents, the method comprising:
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identifying a plurality of locations referenced within a plurality of documents of a corpus of documents;
for each location of the plurality of locations, computing a value score based on a frequency of occurrences of references to the location in the corpus of documents;
displaying a visual representation of a domain, the domain encompassing the locations; and
displaying a visual indicator on the visual representation of the domain, the visual indicator representing locations of the plurality of locations having a value score exceeding a predetermined value score. - View Dependent Claims (30)
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31. An interface program stored on a computer-readable medium for causing a computer system with a display to perform the functions of:
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accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a domain identifier identifying a domain and a free text query entry;
in response to accepting said search criteria from the user, receiving a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, wherein each document of the set of documents;
(a) contains anywhere within the document information that is responsive to the free text query entry; and
(b) contains anywhere within the document location-related information that refers to a location within the domain;
identifying a subset of documents that refer to locations that are more spatially proximate to each other than to other locations referred to by other documents in the corpus of documents; and
displaying a visual representation of at the subset of documents on the display device. - View Dependent Claims (32)
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33. A method of displaying information about documents, the method comprising:
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accepting search criteria from a user, the search criteria including a domain identifier identifying a domain and a free text query entry;
in response to accepting said search criteria from the user, receiving a set of document-location tuples from a corpus of documents, wherein each document of the set of documents;
(a) contains anywhere within the document information that is responsive to the free text query entry; and
(b) contains anywhere within the document location-related information that refers to a location within the domain;
identifying a subset of documents that refer to locations that are more spatially proximate to each other than to other locations referred to by other documents in the corpus of documents; and
displaying a visual representation of at the subset of documents on the display device. - View Dependent Claims (34)
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