Location Based News and Search Engine
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1. A method of automatically calculating temporal characteristics of:
- electronic documents with a computing system comprising;
a. identifying a first event, which first event is the subject of electronic news coverage;
b. automatically identifying a geographic site associated with said first event with the computing system;
c. automatically selecting at least some local sources with the computing system to report on such event based on their proximity to such geographic site;
d. identifying a set of electronic documents containing content relating to said event with the computing system, wherein each electronic document is associated with a respective source;
e. selecting a subset of said set of electronic documents with the computing system based at least in part on their correlation to said local sources;
f. analyzing said subset of electronic documents with the computing system to identify temporal characteristics relating to a state of such event, which temporal characteristics are based on content other than but not excluding date/time data specified for said subset of electronic documents;
g. assigning a temporal value with the computing system to each of said subset of electronic documents;
h. wherein at least one of step (e) and/or (f) are controlled based on content from said local sources.
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Abstract
A search engine and/or news aggregator considers temporal qualities of electronic documents, a location of a searcher/reviewer, and a situs associated with content of the document to determine how/if they should be presented to users.
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1. A method of automatically calculating temporal characteristics of:
- electronic documents with a computing system comprising;
a. identifying a first event, which first event is the subject of electronic news coverage; b. automatically identifying a geographic site associated with said first event with the computing system; c. automatically selecting at least some local sources with the computing system to report on such event based on their proximity to such geographic site; d. identifying a set of electronic documents containing content relating to said event with the computing system, wherein each electronic document is associated with a respective source; e. selecting a subset of said set of electronic documents with the computing system based at least in part on their correlation to said local sources; f. analyzing said subset of electronic documents with the computing system to identify temporal characteristics relating to a state of such event, which temporal characteristics are based on content other than but not excluding date/time data specified for said subset of electronic documents; g. assigning a temporal value with the computing system to each of said subset of electronic documents; h. wherein at least one of step (e) and/or (f) are controlled based on content from said local sources. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
- electronic documents with a computing system comprising;
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8. A method of automatically locating suitable sources for content relating to an event with a computing system comprising:
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a) identifying a first event, which first event is the subject of electronic news coverage from one or more content sources; b) automatically identifying a geographic site associated with said first event with the computing system; c) automatically selecting at least some local sources with the computing system from said one or more content sources to collect data on such event based on their proximity to such geographic site. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method of automatically presenting content relating to one or more events with a computing system comprising:
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a) reviewing a plurality of electronic documents to identify a first event, which first event is the subject of news coverage from one or more content sources authoring said plurality of electronic documents; b) automatically identifying a geographic location associated with said first event with the computing system; c) automatically identifying at least one local source with the computing system from said one or more content sources, said at least one local source being selected based at least in part on a geographic proximity to said geographic location of such first event; d) presenting one or more of said plurality of electronic documents for said first event from said at least one local source along with other non-local sources within a news aggregator interface. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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