Using Place of Accommodation as a Signal for Ranking Reviews and Point of Interest Search Results

Patent №

US 9,817,907

Granted

2017-11-14

Filed 2014

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

3

nlp · kr · planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14308012

Systems and methods for using place of accommodation as a signal for ranking reviews and point of interest search results are provided. One example method includes receiving a search query from a user and identifying a place of accommodation at which the user is staying. The method includes determining a score for each of a plurality of points of interest according to a scoring formula. The scoring formula provides the score based on a plurality of reviews of each point of interest. Reviews provided by reviewers that were staying at the place of accommodation have a greater influence on the score than reviews provided by reviewers that were not staying at the place of accommodation. The method includes selecting one or more of the plurality of points of interest to provide as search results to the user based the plurality of scores.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language0.98
Knowledge representation0.88
AI hardware0.24
Evolutionary computation0.06
Machine learning0.05
Vision0.01
Speech0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 331290735

Assignors

SHARIFI, MATTHEW

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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