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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2013
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2009
Andrei Lopatenko, Cupertino, CA (US);
Trystan Upstill, Mountain View, CA (US);
Soham Mazumdar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin D. Lacker, Berkeley, CA (US);
Andrei Lopatenko, Cupertino, CA (US);
Trystan Upstill, Mountain View, CA (US);
Soham Mazumdar, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin D. Lacker, Berkeley, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for identifying points-of-interest. In one aspect, a method includes accessing, by a mobile device, two or more search results, each of the search results identifying a respective point-of-interest (POI), and determining a distance between the mobile device and each POI. The method may also include selecting a directional icon for each POI based on the distance to the respective POI, and displaying, by the mobile device, information identifying the POIs and, for each POI, the directional icon selected for the respective POI.