User interface and method in a local search system with location identification in a request

• US 8,090,714 B2
• Filed: 11/16/2007
• Issued: 01/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/16/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: IAC Search & Media Incorporated (Match Group, Inc.)
• Inventors: Yang, Yue Rona, Jouline, Anton V., Massie, William Ryan, Reed, William Edward Jr.
• Primary Examiner(s): Trujillo, James
• Assistant Examiner(s): CONYERS, DAWAUNE A
• Application Number:
  US11/941,439
• Publication Number:
  US 20090132511A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,509 Days
• Field of Search: 707/706, 707/707, 707/724
• US Class Current: 707/724
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries

Abstract

A user interface including a first view transmitted from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier and a location identifier. Selection of the search identifier causing transmission of a search request from the client computer system to the server computer system and interaction with the location identifier causing transmission of a selected location from the client computer system to the server computer system.

Claims

1. A method of interfacing with a client computer system, comprising:

storing a plurality of entries in a search data source, each entry having a neighborhood and a city, select groups of the entries having the same city but different neighborhoods;

transmitting a first view from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier and a location identifier;

in response to a user interacting with the search identifier, receiving a search request including a selected location from a client computer system at the server computer system;

utilizing the selected location of the search request at the server computer system to determine a city corresponding to the search request;

utilizing the city corresponding to the search request at the server computer system automatically in response to the determination of the city to determine at least one initial neighborhood corresponding to the city in the entries;

utilizing the initial neighborhood corresponding to the search request at the server computer system automatically in response to the determination of the at least one initial neighborhood to extract at least one search result from the search data source by matching the neighborhood of the search result with the neighborhood corresponding to the location identifier of the search request; and

utilizing the city corresponding to the search request at the server computer system automatically in response to the determination of the city to determine a plurality of suggested neighborhoods corresponding to the city in the entries;

transmitting at least part of a second view from the server computer system to the client computer system for display at the client computer system, wherein the second view includes the search result and the suggested neighborhoods.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the location identifier includes a field for entering text, the selected location being the text.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the city corresponding to the search request is utilized to determine a plurality of different neighborhoods corresponding to the search request, the search result being extracted by matching the neighborhoods of the search result with any of the neighborhoods corresponding to the search request.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a number of search results that are extracted for the initial neighborhood is above a minimum number; and

extracting additional search results for other neighborhoods if the number of search results is not above a minimum number.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the search results for the other neighborhoods are extracted from an area that is larger than an area of the initial neighborhood.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected location is one of a neighborhood, street and a point of interest.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first view includes a date field for entering a date, the search result being based on the date.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the second view includes a map and the information relating to the geographic location is used to indicate the geographic location on the map.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein a plurality of search results is transmitted, each including information relating to a different geographic location, wherein information relating to a respective one of the search results is displayed on the map upon selection of at least one component of the respective search result.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the search request includes an area and a boundary of the area is displayed on the map.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the view is configured to make an addition to the map by including a plurality of addition selectors, each being selectable to make a different addition to the map, the addition selectors including at least a circle and a rectangle that are separately selectable.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the first view includes a map and the second view includes at least a first static location marker at a first fixed location on the map of the second view due to selection of a location marker at the fixed location on the map of the first view.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

storing a profile page, wherein the first view includes a plurality of verticals, selection of a respective vertical causing the display of a respective search identifier associated with the respective vertical, the search request received from a client computer system at the server computer system being in response to the user interacting with one of the search identifiers, and display of the profile page independent of the search identifier that the user interacts with.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of search results is extracted and included in the second view, further comprising:

receiving a driving direction request relating to a select one of the search results from the client computer system at the server computer system;

in response to the driving direction request, calculating driving directions to the selected search result; and

transmitting at least part of a third view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the third view including the driving directions to the selected search result and at least one of the search results other than the selected search result.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the second view includes at least one component that is in substantially the same location as in the first view.

16. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting a third view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the third view including a reproduction selector; and

in response to a reproduction command transmitted from the client computer system to the server computer system upon selection of the reproduction selector, transmitting a fourth view from the server computer system to the client computer system, the fourth view including the search result included in the second view.

17. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon a set of instructions which, when executed by at least one processor of at least one computer, executes a method comprising:

storing a plurality of entries in a search data source, each entry having a neighborhood and a city, select groups of the entries having the same city but different neighborhoods;

transmitting a first view from a server computer system to the client computer system, the first view including a search identifier and a location identifier;

in response to a user interacting with the search identifier, receiving a search request including a selected location from a client computer system at the server computer system;

utilizing the selected location of the search request at the server computer system to determine a city corresponding to the search request;

utilizing the city corresponding to the search request at the server computer system automatically in response to the determination of the city to determine at least one initial neighborhood corresponding to the search request city in the entries;

utilizing the initial neighborhood corresponding to the search request at the server computer system automatically in response to the determination of the at least one initial neighborhood to extract at least one search result from the search data source by matching the neighborhood of the search result with the neighborhood corresponding to the location identifier of the search request; and

utilizing the city corresponding to the search request at the server computer system automatically in response to the determination of the city to determine a plurality of suggested neighborhoods corresponding to the city in the entries;

transmitting at least part of a second view from the server computer system to the client computer system for display at the client computer system, wherein the second view includes the search result and the suggested neighborhoods.