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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 23, 2010
Vanessa Murdock, Barcelona, ES;
Hugues Bouchard, Barcelona, ES;
Vanessa Murdock, Barcelona, ES;
Hugues Bouchard, Barcelona, ES;
EXCALIBUR IP, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques are provided for prediction locations of users that submit search queries. A query is received at a search engine. An inverted index is searched to identify one or more geographical locations associated with one or more terms of the received query. The inverted index lists a plurality of query terms and one or more geographical locations associated with each query term. Each geographic location that is associated with a listed query term in the inverted index is a determined location for at least one user previously having submitted the listed term in a search query. A geographical location is predicted for a user that submitted the received query based on the identified one or more geographical locations. In this manner, a location is predicted for the user based on similar queries previously submitted by users.