Patent ID: 11934411
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 9:
10. A system comprising:
at least one processor; and
at least one non-transitory computer-readable memory storing instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, are effective to cause the at least one processor to:
modifying a search index to generate a modified search index based at least in part on associating regionalized items with discriminator data identifying respective regions corresponding to each of the regionalized items, wherein the regionalized items comprise at least a first item;
receive, from a first computing device, a first search query related to the first item;
determine, by at least one processor, that the first search query is associated with a first region;
determine a one or more items classified as substitute items for the first item;
determine that the first item is regionalized in the modified search index, wherein the first item is regionalized if at least one of the first item and the one or more items classified as substitutes for the first item are available in each region of a plurality of regions, and wherein a regionalized item appears in search results only if the regionalized item is available in a region local to a given search query;
determine a first plurality of search results associated with the first region; and
generate, by the at least one processor, code to cause the first computing device to display the first plurality of search results.