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Location-to-landmark

  • US 8,155,877 B2
  • Filed: 11/29/2007
  • Issued: 04/10/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system that facilitates describing a location with reference to one or more landmarks, comprising:

  • a conversion component that receives a request for a target location and converts the request to a corresponding spatial coordinate;

    a selection module that chooses a landmark from a plurality of landmarks based at least in part on a user familiarity, the user familiarity being determined by comparing information from a user profile database and information from a landmark database;

    an analyzer component that evaluates the spatial coordinate and provides a description that contains the landmark; and

    a rendering component that communicates the description in response to the received request.

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