GEO-AWARE SPELLCHECKING AND AUTO-SUGGEST SEARCH ENGINES

Patent №

US 10,049,166

Granted

2018-08-14

Filed 2016

Owner

YP INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC

+1 more

Lab

AI components

5

ml · nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15238009

Systems and methods for generating geo-aware auto-suggestions for searching are provided. Characters corresponding to user input for a search query to a searching service may be processed prior to completion of the search query. Information about a geographical location may be processed. A geographical area of interest and potential correction(s) may be identified. Geo-specific suggestions may be determined based on the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may correspond to one or more identified businesses located in the geographical area of interest. The determining the geo-specific suggestions may include identifying business listing information corresponding to the geographical area of interest and the search query and/or a selected correction. The geo-specific suggestions may be indicated as a user-selectable option to complete the search query in a search query field for a search engine and/or to submit to the search engine as a selected search query.

AI classification

Natural language1.00
Planning1.00
Machine learning0.96
Knowledge representation0.96
AI hardware0.80
Speech0.03
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

YP INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC

assignment · 403860035

YP LLC

merger · 403860088

Assignors

SOOD, SANJAY CHAND, SAHU, SUDHEER, HE, GUOBIN, KRISHNAMANENI, KRISHNA, SUGANA, KIRAN, CHAUDHARY, VALBHAV, DIEP, NATHAN LIH FENG

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