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Patent 8032427 is very important: A localization service is provided that provides users with online information on local retailers that sell particular products. A user can perform a search using a web page associated with the localization service or by searching using an internet search engine. The user's search includes a search origin. The search origin may be defined in terms of location information such as a place name or a postal code. A search for a particular product at local retailers may be made using search parameters such as search origins, product names, model numbers, product categories, and product attributes. The localization service may provide the user with search results in the form of web pages that list which retailers sell the desired product in the vicinity of the search origin. A targeted advertisement server at the localization service may use display criteria to determine which targeted advertisements should be displayed for the user. Patent #8,032,427 related to location based product search appears to encompass core aspects of services being offered by Groupon (GRPN) (Groupon Now), Living Social (Instant) and Foursquare; and is part and parcel of the product search functionalities offered by eBay's Milo (Nasdaq: EBAY), Gannett's ShopLocal (NYSE: GCI), Jiwire's NearbyNow, Retailigence and Goodzer.
Local Corporation Granted U.S. Patent Number 8,176,082 for a Geographical Web Search System
Ninth patent issued to the company
IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May. 24, 2012-- Local Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading online local media company, today announced that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company patent number 8,176,082, which covers a system for geographical web search indexing.
Issued on May 8, 2012, the patent describes a geographical web search system that retrieves an initial webpage with a link to a related second webpage. Geographical or local information from the second webpage is detected and associated with the first webpage in order to create an index of webpages associated with the geographical information.
"Consumers increasingly access the Internet via mobile devices in order to research local products and services. This patent advances our ability to deliver more relevant search results for local products and services to the 30 million consumers that touch our network each month,” said Heath Clarke, Local Corporation chairman and CEO. “We have spent years developing our intellectual property in this field, and we’re pleased that this key patent has issued."
According to a recent study from Pew Internet, 74 percent of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information.
Abstract: A local search engine geographically indexes information for searching by identifying a geocoded web page of a web site and identifying at least one geocodable web page of the web site. The system identifies a geocode contained within content of the geocoded web page of the web site. The geocode indicates a physical location of an entity associated with the web site. The system indexes content of the geocoded web page and content of the geocodable web page. The indexing including associating the geocode contained within content of the geocoded web page to the indexed content of the geocoded web page and the geocodable web page to allow geographical searching of the content of the web pages.
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Most important: U.S. Patent Number 7,231,405 for Location-Based Search
Local.com Granted U.S. Patent Number 7,231,405 for Location-Based Search
Method of Geographical Searching and Indexing of Data by Location Is Industry Standard for Local Search
IRVINE, CA, Jun 25, 2007 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Local.com Corporation (NASDAQ: LOCM), a leading local search engine, today announced that the company has been awarded patent number 7,231,405 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the process of indexing and retrieving web-related information by geographical location.
The patent covers local search technology related to identifying location information from web documents, indexing that information and making it searchable geographically. In Local.com's commercial implementation of the technology, the search results are ranked by search term, LocalRank score, location prominence, among other factors. The system then extracts, matches and indexes web pages from the Internet and generates web references where applicable on more than 16 million local businesses listed nationwide on Local.com.
"We are very pleased to announce the granting of the patent number 7,231,405 as we believe the methods covered have subsequently become the de-facto standard for information retrieval in the local search industry," said Heath Clarke, Chairman and CEO, Local.com.
"This patent represents our continued commitment to developing products and services at the forefront of local search innovation. The unique technology related to geographical searching and indexing of web data gives us an advantage over conventional search technologies by providing improved relevance and better overall performance," continued Clarke. "We encourage other local search companies that are interested in using our intellectual property to enter into licensing agreements with Local.com." |
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