Patent ID: 8285722

Claim:
A method for discovering wireless-compatible web content from web pages that have been indexed in accordance with an indexing process, the indexing process comprising: retrieving web pages in response to web page requests received from requesting wireless devices, wherein at least some of the retrieved web pages include wireless-compatible content, the requesting wireless devices being associated with a same wireless network; storing usage data associated with each of the retrieved web pages; indexing the retrieved web pages based on the associated usage data, wherein the indexed web pages include wireless-compatible content; the method further comprising: identifying indexed web pages in response to receiving search terms from a searching wireless device, wherein the identified web pages correspond to the received search terms; generating a ranking value for each identified web page, wherein the ranking value is generated based on the stored usage data associated with the corresponding retrieved web page; and refining each generated ranking value, said refining comprising: storing a location of the searching wireless device as usage data associated with each identified web page; in the event that the location of the searching wireless device is within a region served by the wireless network, increasing the ranking value; and in the event that the location of the searching wireless device is not within a region served by the wireless network, decreasing the ranking value; the method further comprising ranking the identified web pages based on the corresponding refined ranking values.