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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2010
Dimitrios Lymperopoulos, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jie Liu, Medina, WA (US);
Melissa Wood Dunn, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ashwini K. Varma, Renton, WA (US);
Fang Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Jen-hsien Kenny Chien, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dimitrios Lymperopoulos, Bellevue, WA (US);
Jie Liu, Medina, WA (US);
Melissa Wood Dunn, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ashwini K. Varma, Renton, WA (US);
Fang Wang, Redmond, WA (US);
Jen-Hsien Kenny Chien, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A location-related entity ranking technique is described that allows a user see the ranking of location-related entities near a desired location in response to a query. The technique can leverage the searches performed by a community of mobile device users at a given location and at a given time to infer the location-related entities that are popular at this specific location and time window. The technique can also filter out or re-rank these location-related entities based on the personal preferences of the person that submits the query and group preferences of a group to which the user belongs. The personal preferences can also be context specific (i.e. different restaurant preferences for lunch and dinner times).