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. |