Patent ID: 9443036
Filing Date: 2016-09-13
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method for providing geo-aware auto-suggestions for a search engine, the method comprising: processing, by a computing system, one or more characters corresponding to user input for a search query to a searching service, wherein the processing is prior to completion of the search query, and wherein the searching service comprises one or more information repositories retaining business listing information about a plurality of businesses; processing, by the computing system, information about a geographical location, wherein the information about the geographical location corresponds to at least one of: identifying, by the computing system, a geographical area of interest at least partially based on the information about the geographical location; identifying, by the computing system, one or more potential spelling corrections to at least a portion of the search query based at least in part on (a) the one or more characters of the user input corresponding to the search query being detected in real-time prior to completion of the search query, and (b) the geographical area of interest; determining, by the computing system, one or more geo-specific suggestions at least partially based on the at least the portion of the search query and/or a selected correction of the one or more potential spelling corrections to the at least the portion of the search query, wherein: causing, by the computing system, indication of at least one of the one or more geo-specific suggestions as a user-selectable option to complete the search query in a search query field for a search engine and/or submission of the at least one of the one or more geo-specific suggestions to the search engine as a selected search query.