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Ranking documents based on a location sensitivity factor

  • US 8,171,048 B2
  • Filed: 08/31/2009
  • Issued: 05/01/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/22/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method performed by a server device, the method comprising:

  • receiving, by one or more processors of the server device, a query;

    determining, by one or more processors of the server device, a geographic location associated with the query;

    determining, by one or more processors of the server device, a topic corresponding to the query;

    determining, by one or more processors of the server device, a location sensitivity factor associated with the topic;

    identifying, by one or more processors of the server device, a set of documents based, at least in part, on the query;

    determining, by one or more processors of the server device, for each document in the set of documents, a topical score based, at least in part, on the query;

    determining, by one or more processors of the server device, for each document in the set of documents, a distance score based on a measure of distance between a geographic location associated with the document and the geographic location associated with the query, and on the location sensitivity factor;

    generating, by one or more processors of the server device, for each document in the set of documents, a combined score based, at least in part, on the topical score and the distance score for the document; and

    ordering, by one or more processors of the server device, the set of documents based, at least in part, on the combined scores for the set of documents.

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