METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SUPPORTING GEO-AUGMENTATION VIA VIRTUAL TAGGING
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1. A method creating annotated geolocations on a mobile communications device, the method comprising:
- receiving an identified posting target to be annotated;
receiving an annotation associated with the identified posting target;
obtaining geolocation information of the identified posting target;
associating the identified posting target, the received annotation, and the provided geolocation to create a virtual tag; and
uploading to a search infrastructure at least the geolocation information and a pointer to the created virtual tag.
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Abstract
A system and method provide for geo-augmentation through virtual tagging. A search infrastructure supports creation, managing and searching geo-coded virtual tags using mobile communication devices. Associated geolocations are added to a geolocation database along with pointers to the stored content. Searching of the geolocation database is performed upon receiving geolocation search input, wherein the infrastructure applies the geolocation based search input to the search database yielding search results delivered from the mobile communications device for presentation to the user.
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1. A method creating annotated geolocations on a mobile communications device, the method comprising:
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receiving an identified posting target to be annotated; receiving an annotation associated with the identified posting target; obtaining geolocation information of the identified posting target; associating the identified posting target, the received annotation, and the provided geolocation to create a virtual tag; and uploading to a search infrastructure at least the geolocation information and a pointer to the created virtual tag. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A method performed by a search service to support searching on a mobile communication device, the method comprising:
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receiving a search query from the mobile communication device, the search query including at least geolocation information of the mobile communication device; submitting the received search query to a search database comprising at least indexed content associated with the geolocation; correlating the received search query with the indexed content to create one or more search results; and forwarding the one or more of the search results to the mobile communication device for display. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system to support searching of geocoded content, comprising:
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a plurality of tags with associated geocoded content stored in memory; a web crawler to access and index one or more of the plurality of tags with associated geocoded content stored in memory, the web crawler comprising; a downloader to crawl and parse one or more of the plurality of tags with geocoded content; a scheduler to schedule the downloader'"'"'s crawling and parsing; a link unit to provide pointers to the plurality of tags with associated geocoded content to the downloader; and a download processor to index the crawled and parsed one or more of the plurality of tags with associated geocoded content to produce indexed data; a database structure to store the indexed data; and a search system to search the database structure and produce a search result. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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