Patent ID: 9645981
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method for providing image content corresponding to a business establishment, the method comprising: receiving, by one or more processors, a plurality of webpages corresponding to a business establishment, the webpages being filtered out from homepages of business establishments representing multiple locations; selecting, by the one or more processors, one or more webpages from the plurality of webpages belonging to and administered by the business establishment, based on content of each of the plurality of webpages; retrieving, by the one or more processors, at least one webpage related to the selected one or more webpages; extracting, by the one or more processors, image content from the retrieved at least one webpage; generating, by the one or more processors, at least one annotation for the extracted image content based on at least one characteristic of the extracted image content, the at least one annotation being associated with a probability that the at least one characteristic satisfies one or more criterion; filtering, by the one or more processors, the image content based on the generated at least one annotation for the extracted image content; and providing, by the one or more processors, the filtered image content for display in response to a search query for information relating to the business establishment; wherein the at least one characteristic of the extracted image content comprises at least one of a probability that the extracted image content is a photograph versus a graphical rendering, an indication of whether the extracted image content is black and white or color, or an indication of a relevance of a Uniform Resource Locator of the retrieved at least one webpage.