METHOD AND INTERFACE FOR DISPLAYING LOCATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH ANNOTATIONS

• US 20110173572A1
• Filed: 01/13/2010
• Published: 07/14/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/13/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Incorporated (Verizon Communications Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Yahoo! Inc. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Garcia Pueyo, Lluis, van Zwol, Roelof, Murdock, Vanessa
• Granted Patent: US 9,563,850 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/856
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/5866 using information manually generated, e.g. tags, keywords, comments, manually generated location and time information
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 7/01 Probabilistic graphical models, e.g. probabilistic networks

Abstract

Methods, systems and computer program products for displaying geographical locations with the one or more annotations. In a particular embodiment, a language model is used to obtain the probability distribution of the locations over one or more annotations. Further, the system and the method utilizes the probability data obtained from the language model to determine a probability score for each location over the one or more annotations. Subsequently, one or more geographical locations are displayed on a world map, based on the probability score of the geographical locations over the one or more annotations. In one embodiment, geographical locations may be highlighted using a color code on a heat map overlaid on the world map. The color code may represent the ranking of the geographical locations based on the calculated probability score for each identified geographical location. Further, when the user provides one or more additional annotations, the world map may be dynamically updated to display the relevant geographical locations associated with the updated annotations.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, at a computing system, one or more annotations from a remote client application;

obtaining, from a language model, probabilistic data corresponding to the one or more annotations;

applying probabilistic modeling to identify one or more geographical locations associated with the one or more annotations, wherein the probabilistic modeling is based on the obtained probabilistic data; and

transmitting user interface data operative to cause the remote client application to display, over a world map, the identified one or more geographical locations.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more annotations are keywords of a search query.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more annotations include at least one of a tag, a title, a description and a comment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting comprises placing the identified one or more geographical locations on grid cells over the world map.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting comprises placing the identified one or more geographical locations on bounding boxes over the world map.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting one or more geographical locations comprises highlighting geographical locations by providing a color code on a heat map and wherein the heat map is overlaid on the world map.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the color code defines a ranking order of the one or more geographical locations.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting one or more geographical locations comprises providing a numerical ranking to geographical locations on the world map.

9. The method of claim 1 further comprises:

receiving, at the computing system, one or more additional annotations from the remote client application;

updating the identified one or more geographical locations based on the one or more additional annotations; and

transmitting user interface data operative to cause the remote client application to display the updated geographical locations on the world map.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein transmitting the updated geographical locations on the world map comprises automatic zooming of the world map to display a relevant area of the world map.

11. The method of claim 1 further comprises:

providing a functionality to select at least one geographical location from the one or more geographical locations;

showing a representative content object of the selected geographical location; and

allowing a user to browse content objects associated with the selected geographical location.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the geographical location is selected by mouse-over on the highlighted geographical location.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the geographical location is selected by a mouse click on the geographical location.

14. A system comprising:

one or more network interfaces;

at least one processor;

a memory; and

computer program code stored in a computer readable storage medium,

wherein the computer program code, when executed, is operative to cause the system to;

receive, at a computing system, one or more annotations from a remote client application;

obtain, from a language model, probabilistic data corresponding to the one or more annotations;

apply probabilistic modeling to identify one or more geographical locations associated with the one or more annotations, wherein the probabilistic modeling is based on the obtained probabilistic data; and

transmitting user interface data operative to cause the remote client application to display, over a world map, the identified one or more geographical locations.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more annotations are keywords of a search query.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more annotations include at least one of a tag, a title, a description and a comment.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein transmitting one or more geographical locations comprises highlighting geographical locations by providing a color code on a heat map and wherein the heat map is overlaid on the world map.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the color code defines a ranking order of the one or more geographical locations.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein transmitting one or more geographical locations comprises providing a numerical ranking to geographical locations on the world map.

20. A computer program code stored in a computer readable storage medium,

wherein the computer program code, when executed, is operative to cause the system to:

receive, at a computing system, one or more annotations from a remote client application;

obtain, from a language model, probabilistic data corresponding to the one or more annotations;

apply probabilistic modeling to identify one or more geographical locations associated with the one or more annotations, wherein the probabilistic modeling is based on the obtained probabilistic data; and

transmitting user interface data operative to cause the remote client application to display, over a world map, the identified one or more geographical locations.