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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2009
Applicants:
Joy Ghanekar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jerry Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Denis Hänikel, San Jose, CA (US);
Inventors:
Joy Ghanekar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jerry Cheng, Mountain View, CA (US);
Denis Hänikel, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/048 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A search engine computer system is configured to produce an optimized display of maps especially useful in mobile handheld devices with comparatively small screens. The system factors in scoring functions, visibility, and empirical data on map levels to provide optimal map based results to users. This minimizes or avoids graphical results that overlap each other.