Patent ID: 8725727

Claim:
A method of determining popularity of Internet content by location, comprising the following steps, each carried out by a server: for each of plural electronic devices, receiving a data object when a respective user of the electronic device uses a browser of the electronic device to visit a website, each data object containing an identification of the visited website and a position of the corresponding electronic device at the time of the website visit; collecting and storing the visited website identifications and corresponding positions in a database; receiving a request from a requesting electronic device, the request specifying a location and the request being a request for an identification of the most popular websites visited by electronic devices that were in the location at the time of the corresponding website visits; analyzing the database and constructing a list of a predetermined number of websites that were visited the most by the users of the electronic devices for which the positions match the location specified in the request, wherein the list is ordered from the website that was visited the most by the users of the electronic devices for which positions match the location specified in the request to the website that was visited the least by the users of the electronic devices for which positions match the location specified in the request; and transmitting the list to an electronic device that generated the request.