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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
May. 30, 2011
Jason Leslie Szabo, Erie, CO (US);
Charles Frankel, Denver, CO (US);
Jason Leslie Szabo, Erie, CO (US);
Charles Frankel, Denver, CO (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Information may be associated with geographic locations, and requests for this information may be used to determine future actions. In one example, a search engine returns results that refer to places having physical geographic locations. If imagery of the geographic locations is available, the imagery may be shown to the person who requests the information. If imagery is not available, this unavailability may be treated as a failure. If a number of failures occurs in a geographic area, then resources (e.g., a car with a camera) may be deployed to collect imagery of that area. In another example, knowledge about a geographic concentration of requests might be used to disambiguate a request relating to a larger area (e.g., requests relating to 'Minneapolis' might be focused on the area near the I-35 bridge, if data show that many requests in Minneapolis are for the area around that bridge).