MULTIPLE VIEWS OF A GEOGRAPHIC AREA ON A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20140123070A1
• Filed: 01/09/2014
• Published: 05/01/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/07/2005
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Bliss, Adam, Crady, Mark, Chu, Michael, Jenson, Scott, Mavinkurve, Sanjay, Sacks, Joshua J., Morrison, Jerry
• Application Number:
  US14/150,999
• Publication Number:
  US 20140123070A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/835
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/367 Details, e.g. road map scale, orientation, zooming, illumination, level of detail, scrolling of road map or positioning of current position marker
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3676 Overview of the route on the road map
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/29 Geographical information databases
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/951 Indexing; Web crawling techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9538 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/954 Navigation, e.g. using categorised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 29/106 using electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0206 Portable telephones comprising a plurality of mechanically joined movable body parts, e.g. hinged housings
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/724 User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location

Abstract

A computer-implemented method is disclosed that includes receiving on a mobile device a search query associated with a geographic location, providing one or more search results in response to the search query, the search results each being associated with a geographic location, and presenting on a graphical display of the computing device icons corresponding to each search result and also corresponding to a key on the computing device.

Claims

1-20. -20. (canceled)

21. A computer implemented method comprising:

receiving, on a mobile computing device, a search query that is associated with a geographic area;

receiving, at the mobile computing device, one or more search results that are responsive to the search query and are each associated with a respective facility located within the geographic area;

displaying, on a display of the mobile computing device, a first view of a map that shows a first geographic area visually overlaid with one or more first icons at locations that correspond to one or more of the respective facilities;

panning the map on the display of the mobile computing device to show a second view of the map that shows a second geographic area and that is different than the first view of the map; and

displaying one or more icons over the second view of the map, the second view being overlaid with one or more second icons at locations that correspond to one or more of the respective facilities, wherein the one or more second icons differ at least in part from the one or more first icons.

22. The computer implemented method of claim 21, further comprising:

identifying the geographic area based on receiving, on the mobile computing device, information that represents the geographic area.

23. The computer implemented method of claim 22, wherein the information that represents the geographic area comprises a current location of the mobile computing device determined by the mobile computing device.

24. The computer implemented method of claim 22, wherein the information that represents the geographic area comprises location information received on the mobile computing device from a user of the mobile computing device.

25. The computer implemented method of claim 21, further comprising:

displaying, on the display of the mobile computing device, one or more indicator icons positioned at locations on the display of the mobile computing device in order to indicate a direction to pan the map on the display of the mobile computing device.

26. The computer implemented method of claim 25, wherein panning the map on the display of the mobile computing device to show a second view of the map comprises:

panning the map on the display of the mobile computing device in a direction indicated by a one of the one or more indicator icons in order to display the second view of the map.

27. The computer implemented method of claim 26, wherein the second view of the map includes at least one of the respective facilities that is not included in the first view of the map.

28. The computer implemented method of claim 25, wherein an indicator icon is positioned at each corner of the display of the mobile computing device.

29. The computer implemented method of claim 25, wherein an indicator icon is positioned at each edge of the display of the mobile computing device.

30. The computer implemented method of claim 25, wherein each of the one or more indicator icons includes a number corresponding to the one or more search results responsive to the search query that are located on the map in the direction indicated by the respective indicator icon.

31. A mobile computing device comprising:

a wireless communication interface;

a display screen; and

one or more processors connected to memory that stores instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising;

receiving, on a mobile computing device, a search query that is associated with a geographic area;

receiving, at the mobile computing device, one or more search results that are responsive to the search query and are each associated with a respective facility located within the geographic area;

displaying, on a display of the mobile computing device, a first view of a map shows a first geographic area visually overlaid with one or more first icons at locations that correspond to one or more of the respective facilities;

panning the map on the display of the mobile computing device to show a second view of the map that shows a second geographic area and that is different than the first view; and

displaying one or more icons over the second view of the map, the second view being overlaid with one or more second icons at locations that correspond to one or more of the respective facilities, wherein the one or more second icons differ at least in part from the one or more first icons.

32. The mobile computing device of claim 31, further comprising:

identifying the geographic area based on receiving, on the mobile computing device, information that represents the geographic area.

33. The mobile computing device of claim 32, wherein the information that represents the geographic area comprises a current location of the mobile computing device determined by the mobile computing device.

34. The mobile computing device of claim 32, wherein the information that represents the geographic area comprises location information received on the mobile computing device from a user of the mobile computing device.

35. The mobile computing device of claim 31, wherein the operations further comprise:

displaying, on the display of the mobile computing device, one or more indicator icons positioned at locations on the display of the mobile computing device in order to indicate a direction to pan the map on the display of the mobile computing device.

36. The mobile computing device of claim 35, wherein panning the map on the display of the mobile computing device to show a second view of the map comprises:

panning the map on the display of the mobile computing device in a direction indicated by a one of the one or more indicator icons in order to display the second view of the map.

37. The mobile computing device of claim 36, wherein the second view of the map includes at least one of the respective facilities that is not included in the first view of the map.

38. The mobile computing device of claim 35, wherein an indicator icon is positioned at each corner of the display of the mobile computing device.

39. The mobile computing device of claim 35, wherein an indicator icon is positioned at each edge of the display of the mobile computing device.

40. The mobile computing device of claim 35, wherein each of the one or more indicator icons includes a number corresponding to the one or more search results responsive to the search query that are located on the map in the direction indicated by the respective indicator icon.