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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 13, 2022
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Haroon Baig, Zurich, CH;
Ankit Gupta, Zurich, CH;
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the technology evaluate places that are familiar to a given user in order to provide contextualized location information about other places of interest. This may include evaluating the actual number of visits by the given user to one or more locations in a given geographical area. For instance, places that have been visited a sufficient number of times within a particular timeframe are identified as personal landmarks for that user. Thus, when the user searches for a specific place or otherwise requests results that fit a query, the system can use the personalized landmark information to help rank search results and to provide location cues to aid the user to quickly and efficiently arrive at the location of the search result. Personal landmarks are necessarily familiar to the user, and thus can reduce the number of turn-by-turn directions or simplify the graphical interface of the client device.