Geocoding personal information

• US 8,060,582 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2008
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/22/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Bliss, Adam, Conway, David P.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan; Wing
• Assistant Examiner(s): Miah; Razu
• Application Number:
  US12/256,078
• Publication Number:
  US 20100106801A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,119 Days
• Field of Search: 709217-219, 348113-116
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3874 Structures specially adapted for data searching and retrieval
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/15 Correlation function computation including computation of convolution operations arithmetic circuits for sum of products per se, e.g. multiply-accumulators G06F7/5443; digital filters, e.g. FIR, IIR, adaptive filters H03H17/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/20 Drawing from basic elements, e.g. lines or circles
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/003 Details of a display terminal, the details relating to the control arrangement of the display terminal and to the interfaces thereto specific for a CRT G09G1/165; for a flat panel G09G3/2092

Abstract

A computer-implemented method for generating geocoded user information is disclosed. The method comprises searching user data across multiple different data corpuses for entries having location-related information and determining locations for the location-related information. The method further comprises generating a map showing a current location of a mobile device along with representations of the entries having location-related information, at the determined locations, for entries from the multiple different data corpuses.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for generating geocoded user information, comprising:

searching across multiple different data corpuses, in data that corresponds to an account for a user and that was stored prior to the searching across multiple different data corpuses, for entries having location-related information, by distinguishing entries having location-related information that indicates a geographic location from other entries that correspond to the account;

determining locations for the location-related information;

determining a current location of a mobile device that is associated with the user;

submitting a query associated with the user data to a remote local search engine; and

generating on a computing device, based on one or more of the determined locations for the location-related information being within a proximity of the current location of the mobile device, a map showing;

     1) the current location of the mobile device,

     2) representations of the entries having determined locations within the proximity, the representations shown at the determined locations within the proximity, and

     3) one or more icons representative of data received in response to the query.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein data for displaying the map is received from a remote server and data for the entries is received from a local device and overlaid on the map.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying, over the map, icons representing entries for events that are a determined distance from an outer edge of a geography displayed by the map.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving a panning action on the map, and updating a display of the map and the entries to match a new location on the map.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the panning action is instituted automatically using a location sensor in the computing device.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising automatically displaying detail information for an entry that is closest to the computing device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying icons at the determined locations, where each icon corresponds to a corpus in which an entry occurs.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein determining locations for the location-related information comprises transmitting descriptive location-based data to a remote server and receiving in response geocoded information.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein the location-related information comprises a street address.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining locations for the location-related information comprises determining a latitude/longitude pair.

9. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium having recorded and stored thereon instructions that, when executed, performs actions including:

searching across multiple different data corpuses, in data that corresponds to an account for a user and that was stored prior to the searching across multiple different data corpuses, for entries having location-related information, by distinguishing entries having location-related information that indicates a geographic location from other entries that correspond to the account;

determining locations for the location-related information;

determining a current location of a mobile device that is associated with the user;

submitting a query associated with the user data to a remote local search engine; and

generating, based on one or more of the determined locations for the location-related information being within a proximity of the current location of the mobile device, a map showing the current location of the mobile device and descriptions of the entries having determined locations within the proximity, the descriptions shown at the determined locations within the proximity, and one or more icons representative of data received in response to the query.

10. The medium of claim 9, wherein the instructions for generating a map further include instructions for displaying, over the map, icons representing entries that are a determined distance from an outer edge of a geography displayed by the map.

11. The medium of claim 9, wherein the instructions for generating a map further include instructions for receiving a panning action on the map, and updating a display of the map and the entries to match a new location on the map.

12. The medium of claim 9, wherein the instructions for generating a map further include instructions for displaying icons at the determined locations, where each icon corresponds to a corpus in which an entry occurs.

13. The medium of claim 9, wherein determining locations for the location-related information comprises transmitting descriptive location-based data to a remote server and receiving in response geocoded information.

14. A computer-implemented navigation system, comprising:

a processor;

a location scraper to search across multiple different data corpuses, in data that corresponds to an account for a user and that was stored prior to the searching across multiple different data corpuses, for entries having location-related information, by distinguishing entries having location-related information that indicates a geographic location from other entries that correspond to the account;

a location resolution module to determine locations for the location-related information;

a location engine to determine a current location of a mobile device that is associated with the user;

a query submission module to submit a query associated with the user data to a remote local search engine; and

a user data mapping module to generate, based on one or more of the determined locations for the location-related information being within a proximity of the current location of the mobile device, mapping information that includes a map having an indicator for the current location of the mobile device and indicators for the entries having determined locations within the proximity that are shown at the determined locations within the proximity, and having one or more icons representative of data received in response to the query.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the location resolution module is programmed to submit textual address information to a remote server and to receive geocoded information in response.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the location scraper is programmed to analyze data from a calendar application, a contacts application and a tasks application.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the mapping module overlays icons representative of each of the applications, at locations for the location-related information, over a map generated using information obtained from a remote server.

18. A computer navigation system, comprising:

a processor;

a location scraper to search across multiple different data corpuses, in data that corresponds to an account for a user and that was stored prior to the searching across multiple different data corpuses, for entries having location-related information, by distinguishing entries having location-related information that indicates a geographic location from other entries that correspond to the account;

a location resolution module to provide geocoded information associated with the location-related information;

a location determination module to determine the current location of a computing device associated with the user;

a query submission module to submit a query associated with the user data to a remote local search engine; and

means for generating, based on one or more of the determined locations for the location-related information being within a proximity of the current location of the computing device, map data that includes an indication of the current location of the computing device, and indications of the entries having determined locations within the proximity that are shown at the determined locations within the proximity, and one or more icons representative of data received in response to the query.