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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 29, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2010
Timothy A. Dietz, Austin, TX (US);
Timothy A. Dietz, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for serving a web page begins by storing a set of location-specific page elements. In response to a request for the web page from a client browser, a control routine parses the request to locate a geographic location data string identifying a location of the client browser that has made the request. The geographic location data string may be generated at the client browser in a number of different ways, e.g., by a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver coupled to the client computer. At the server, the web page is built dynamically using the geographic location data string to select a given one of the set of location-specific page elements and, preferably, an element having content associated with a physical location in proximity to the location of the client browser. The web page is then served in response to the request. In this way, targeted advertising or other page content is included in the web page as a function of the client browser location.