Patent ID: 8429204

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for generating a short title for a geographic point-of-interest (POI), the method executed by a computer system and comprising: storing a list of common POI suffixes, the POI suffixes appearing in titles of a plurality of POIs; storing aliases of a city, a province, and a plurality of districts, the city located within the province and comprising the plurality of districts; identifying a POI located within one of the plurality of districts, wherein the POI has a title including a prefix and a suffix; matching the prefix of the title of the POI with an alias of an administrative area including the POI, the administrative area comprising one of the following: the province, the city, and said district; determining a remainder of the title excluding the matched prefix; determining whether the remainder of the title includes as a prefix a suffix in the list of common POI suffixes; and responsive to the remainder not including as a prefix any suffix in the list of common POI suffixes, removing the prefix from the title of the POI.