SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING SURROUNDING AREA SEARCH RESULT

• US 20150039227A1
• Filed: 06/19/2014
• Published: 02/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/31/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Thinkware Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: Thinkware Systems Corporation
• Inventors: KIM, Yeon Jung
• Granted Patent: US 9,696,174 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/532
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3682 output of POI information on a road map G01C21/3614, G01C21/3685 take precedence

Abstract

Provided is a system and method for providing a surrounding area search result. A search system may include a searcher configured to search for a reference location in response to a nearby point of interest (POI) search request based on the reference location, and to search for POIs located around the reference location, and a display configured to display a search result about the POIs based on each reference location when at least two reference locations are retrieved.

Claims

1. A search system, comprising:

a searcher configured to search for a reference location in response to a nearby point of interest (POI) search request based on the reference location, and to search for POIs located around the reference location; and

a display configured to display a search result about the POIs based on each reference location when at least two reference locations are retrieved.

2. The search system of claim 1, wherein the display is configured to group and thereby display the search result into a plurality of groups based on each reference location.

3. The search system of claim 1, wherein the display is configured to group and thereby display the search result into a plurality of groups based on each reference location, and to apply, to each group, a display ranking determined based on each reference location and thereby display the search result.

4. The search system of claim 3, wherein the display ranking of the reference location is determined based on a distance between the reference location and a current location of a user terminal having requested the nearby POI search request.

5. The search system of claim 3, wherein the display ranking of the reference location is determined based on a weight according to a type of a POI corresponding to the reference location.

6. The search system of claim 3, wherein the display ranking of the reference location is determined based on a weight according to an awareness level of a POI corresponding to the reference location.

7. The search system of claim 1, wherein the display is configured to initially display a reference location list and to display a search result list about a POI corresponding to a reference location selected from the reference location list.

8. The search system of claim 7, wherein a display ranking of each reference location included in the reference location list is determined based on one of a distance between the reference location and a current location of a user terminal having requested the nearby POI search request, a weight according to a type of a POI corresponding to the reference location, and a weight according to an awareness level of the POI corresponding to the reference location.

9. A search system, comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit, to a search server, a nearby point of interest (POI) search request based on a reference location, and to receive, from the search server, a search result about the nearby POI search request; and

a display configured to display the search result about the nearby POI search request,

wherein the search server is configured to search for the reference location, to search for POIs located around the reference location, and to group and thereby provide a search result about the POIs into a plurality of groups based on each reference location when at least two reference locations are retrieved.

10. The search system of claim 9, wherein the display is configured to display the search result about the nearby POI search request into the plurality of groups based on the reference location, and

a display ranking of the reference location is determined based on one of a distance between the reference location and a current location of a user terminal having requested the nearby POI search request, a weight according to a type of a POI corresponding to the reference location, and a weight according to an awareness level of the POI corresponding to the reference location.

11. A search method, comprising:

searching for a reference location in response to a nearby point of interest (POI) search request based on the reference location, and searching for POIs located around the reference location; and

displaying a search result about the POIs based on each reference location when at least two reference locations are retrieved.

12. The search method of claim 11, wherein the displaying comprises grouping and thereby displaying the search result into a plurality of groups based on each reference location.

13. The search method of claim 11, wherein the displaying comprises grouping and thereby displaying the search result into a plurality of groups based on each reference location, and applying, to each group, a display ranking determined based on each reference location and thereby displaying the search result.

14. The search method of claim 13, wherein the display ranking of the reference location is determined based on a distance between the reference location and a current location of a user terminal having requested a nearby POI search.

15. The search method of claim 13, wherein the display ranking of the reference location is determined based on a weight according to a type of a POI corresponding to the reference location.

16. The search method of claim 13, wherein the display ranking of the reference location is determined based on a weight according to an awareness level of a POI corresponding to the reference location.

17. A search method, comprising:

transmitting, to a search server, a nearby point of interest (POI) search request based on a reference location;

receiving, from the search server, a search result about the nearby POI search request; and

displaying the search result about the nearby POI search request,

wherein the search server is configured to search for the reference location, to search for POIs located around the reference location, and to group and thereby provide the search result about the POIs into a plurality of groups based on each reference location when at least two reference locations are retrieved.

18. The search method of claim 17, wherein

the displaying comprises displaying the search result about the nearby POI search request into the plurality of groups based on the reference location, and

a display ranking of the reference location is determined based on one of a distance between the reference location and a current location of a user terminal having requested the nearby POI search request, a weight according to a type of a POI corresponding to the reference location, and a weight according to an awareness level of the POI corresponding to the reference location.