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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 29, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2008
Joseph M. Joy, Bangalore, IN;
Tanuja Abhay Joshi, Pashan Pune, IN;
Udayan Khurana, New Delhi, IN;
Arumugam Kumaran, Bangalore, IN;
Vibhuti Singh Sengar, Unnao, IN;
Tobias W. M. Kellner, Bischofswiesen, DE;
Joseph M. Joy, Bangalore, IN;
Tanuja Abhay Joshi, Pashan Pune, IN;
Udayan Khurana, New Delhi, IN;
Arumugam Kumaran, Bangalore, IN;
Vibhuti Singh Sengar, Unnao, IN;
Tobias W. M. Kellner, Bischofswiesen, DE;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A cross-lingual location search uses a combination of translation and transliteration of query tokens to develop a set of candidate matches for further searching. A query is broken up into individual tokens (e.g. address parts) and a list of transliterations and/or translations for each token is developed. The translated and transliterated results are keyed against a spatial database using both literal database keys and transliterated database keys. Matches from the resulting searches are selected when a spatial overlap, or constraint, occurs among subsequences of the query tokens.