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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2016
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sean Michael Imler, San Jose, CA (US);
Kevin Cheng, San Francisco, CA (US);
Excalibur IP, LLC, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A system may provide for retrieving data within a selected region of a map is provided. The system may include mobile devices configured to display a map and to receive a user selection of a region of the map. An application server may receive data from the mobile device, representing the user selected region of the map and a search criterion. A database may be in operative communication with the application server and executes a query using the data representing the selected region of the map and the search criterion and to return data results corresponding to a plurality of locations within the selected region and related to the search criterion. The mobile device may further be configured to display the data results corresponding to the plurality of locations on the selected region of the map and the displayed data results are automatically updated when the user moves the selected region of the map.