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

Claim 17:
18. A method comprising:
regionalizing a first item by determining that at least one of the first item and one or more items classified as substitutes for the first item are available in each region of a plurality of regions, wherein a regionalized item appears in search results only if the regionalized item is available in a region local to a given search query;
modifying a search index to generate a modified search index based at least in part on associating the first item with discriminator data identifying regions corresponding to the first item;
receiving, from a first computing device, a first search query related to the first item;
determining, by at least one processor, that the first search query is associated with a first region of a plurality of regions;
determining that the first item is regionalized in the modified search index; and
generating a first plurality of search results associated with the first region.