USER INTERFACE FOR GEOGRAPHIC SEARCH

• US 20080270366A1
• Filed: 07/02/2008
• Published: 10/30/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/28/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Metacarta, Inc.
• Inventors: FRANK, John R.
• Application Number:
  US12/166,809
• Publication Number:
  US 20080270366A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A computer-implemented method of processing a geotext query, said method involving: receiving a first free-text query string from a user; and decomposing the first free-text query into a non-geographic query and a geographic query, wherein the non-geographic query is a second free-text query string derived from the first free-text query string and the geographic query is a geographical location description.

Claims

1-39. -39. (canceled)

40. A computer-implemented method comprising:

submitting a geotext query to a search engine;

receiving search results from the search engine, said search results including a document that is responsive to the geotext query;

displaying a map on a visual display device;

displaying a marker on the map that corresponds to the document and is located at a geographical location on the map to which the document refers, wherein the marker presents information about the document; and

enabling a user to select at least some of said information from the marker and add an annotation to the map that is associated with said geographical location irrespective of whether said marker or any other markers are shown on the displayed map, said annotation including said selected information.

41. The computer-implemented method of claim 40, further comprising enabling the user to edit said annotation.

42. The computer-implemented method of claim 40, further comprising saving the map with the annotation as a customized report.