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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023
Filed:
Apr. 17, 2014
Tomtom Navigation B.v., Amsterdam, NL;
Hendrik Sebastian Ziezold, Amsterdam, NL;
Simone Francine Tertoolen, Rotterdam, NL;
Mathieu M. B. Doorduyn, Utrecht, NL;
Marc Alexander Viddeleer, Almere, NL;
Adrian Catalin Bogdan, Amsterdam, NL;
Joost Cornelis Frederik Voogt, Utrecht, NL;
Ruud Willemstein, Eemnes, NL;
Martin Wolf, Veenendaal, NL;
Maurits Hol, Amsterdam, NL;
Michel de Boer, Loenen aan de Vecht, NL;
TomTom Navigation B.V., Amsterdam, NL;
Abstract
A portable electronic device is disclosed comprising data processing means and a data repository containing: data records representative of locations relevant to or within a digital map; and data representative of an index associating words contained in the data records with the records in which those words appear. The device further comprises means for, in relation to a received search query including a search string, processing the search string to provide one or more search words; querying the index to identify data records containing the or each search word; and generating a rank for each of the one or more identified data records indicative of the relevance of each identified data record to the search query.