USING BOUNDARIES ASSOCIATED WITH A MAP VIEW FOR BUSINESS LOCATION SEARCHING

• US 20080183377A1
• Filed: 03/31/2008
• Published: 07/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: O'Clair, Brian
• Granted Patent: US 7,698,059 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A system aggregates entity location information from multiple documents distributed among multiple locations in a network. The system searches the entity location information to identify a first set of entities located within the entirety of a first geographic region selected by a user. The system provides a first digital map to the user via a network, the first digital map including the first geographic region and further including visual representations of the first set of identified entities and their associated geographic locations.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

providing a first map to a user, the first map including a geographic region having first boundaries;

receiving an indication of a boundary reselection from the user;

providing a second map to the user, the second map including a geographic region having second boundaries, wherein the second boundaries are different than the first boundaries;

identifying a geographic search area based on the second boundaries;

searching entity location information to identify entities located within the identified geographic search area; and

providing the identified entities, and associated geographic location information, to the user.

2-27. -27. (canceled)