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Location Searching with Category Indices

  • US 20150088860A1
  • Filed: 09/20/2013
  • Published: 03/26/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/20/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for selecting a location responsive to a location search query, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by a computer, a location search query comprising a textual string;

    parsing, by the computer, the textual string to generate a set of search tokens;

    searching, by the computer, a plurality of location category indices to select a set of index search results, each index search result selected from a location category index;

    scoring each index search result in the set of index search results using scoring weights associated with the location category index from which the index search result was selected; and

    selecting an index search result based on the scoring.

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