Textual geographic location processing

• US 9,842,104 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2016
• Issued: 12/12/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/21/2013
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Intelligent Language, LLC
• Original Assignee: Intelligent Language, LLC
• Inventors: Smyros, Athena A., Smyros, Constantine J.
• Primary Examiner(s): GUERRA-ERAZO, EDGAR X
• Application Number:
  US15/351,003
• Publication Number:
  US 20170060838A1
• Time in Patent Office: 393 Days
• Field of Search: 704 9, 704 10, 704235, 704246, 704275
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/3446 Details of route searching algorithms, e.g. Dijkstra, A*, arc-flags, using precalculated routes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/247 Thesauruses; Synonyms
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/295 Named entity recognition
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

Textual Geographical Location relates a placename, which is a set of terms, from one to any maximum as defined in an individual language, to a unique point or area (many points) as found on a map or other coordinate system, such as the map of the United States as used in global positioning system (GPS).

Claims

1. A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for performing location positioning, he computer program product comprising:

code, using deterministic grammatical analysis, for determining a geographical area associated with a document from text contained in the document, wherein the text includes a home for a person, and not using a GPS signal;

code for determining at least one placename and coordinates for the one placename within the area;

code for performing association between the placename and a specific area using deterministic grammatical analysis to determine at least one other placename, wherein the placename and the one other placename are geographic synonyms;

code for performing analysis on the association to relate the placename to the one other placename and coordinates for the one other placename;

code for comparing the placename and the other placename with a document repository, wherein the document repository contains job locations to determine which job locations are proximate to the placename and the other placename; and

code for displaying the proximate job locations to the person.

2. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the code for performing analysis includes using ordinal directions.

3. The computer program product of claim 1, wherein the code for performing includes means for determining objects that reside within the specific area.