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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 03, 2014
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
John Chu, Bothell, WA (US);
Robert Arnold, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mark Malleck, Newcastle, WA (US);
Stuart Graham, Kenmore, WA (US);
Jeremy Calvert, Seattle, WA (US);
Dennis Schneider, Auburn, WA (US);
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to flexible, user-adapted, continuous searching, on behalf of a particular user, for points of interest relevant to the user's current location within a specifically computed personal region of interest. In a general case, the personal region of interest is computed as a function of the user's level of disposition towards the searched-for points of interest. The level of disposition towards the searched-for points of interest may, in turn, be based on two or more of the user's location, the current date and time, a history of the user's interaction with the POI-searching system, including user-initiated searches and user selections from displayed search results, a user profile developed for, and continuously updated on behalf of, the user, and a current context for the search, as specified by a search query or by other context-specifying means. The personal region of interest generally defines an abstract area, volume, or hypervolume within which method and system embodiments of the present invention search for points of interest.