Method and system for continuous, dynamic, adaptive recommendation based on a continuously evolving personal region of interest
First Claim
1. A location-based points-of-interest searching system comprising:
- stored information; and
searching logic thatreceives a points-of-interest search request from a user,computes a personal region of interest with respect to the user and the received points-of-interest search request,searches for points of interest within the personal region of interest, andreturns, to the user, one or more points-of-interest found by searching for points of interest within the personal region of interest as well as an indication of the contextually relevance of the one or more POIs.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to flexible, user-adapted, continuous searching, on behalf of a particular user, for points of interest relevant to the user'"'"'s current location within a specifically computed personal region of interest. In a general case, the personal region of interest is computed as a function of the user'"'"'s level of disposition towards the searched-for points of interest. The level of disposition towards the searched-for points of interest may, in turn, be based on two or more of the user'"'"'s location, the current date and time, a history of the user'"'"'s interaction with the POI-searching system, including user-initiated searches and user selections from displayed search results, a user profile developed for, and continuously updated on behalf of, the user, and a current context for the search, as specified by a search query or by other context-specifying means. The personal region of interest generally defines an abstract area, volume, or hypervolume within which method and system embodiments of the present invention search for points of interest.
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10 Claims
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1. A location-based points-of-interest searching system comprising:
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stored information; and searching logic that receives a points-of-interest search request from a user, computes a personal region of interest with respect to the user and the received points-of-interest search request, searches for points of interest within the personal region of interest, and returns, to the user, one or more points-of-interest found by searching for points of interest within the personal region of interest as well as an indication of the contextually relevance of the one or more POIs. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A method for searching for points of interest on behalf of a user, the method comprising.
receiving a points-of-interest search request from the user, computing a personal region of interest, with respect to the user and the received points-of-interest search request; selecting points of interest within the personal region of interest, and returning, to the user, the selected points of interest as well as an indication of the contextually relevance of the one or more POIs. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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