Patent Document ID: 20110302162
Application ID: 12796345
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-readable medium having computer executable instructions encoded thereon, the computer executable instructions for execution by a processor to perform location-related mining operations, the operations comprising: receiving a query comprising a location and a context term; identifying at least one snippet, wherein a snippet comprises a segment of user-generated content; extracting the location from the at least one snippet; mining the context term from the at least one snippet; calculating a geographic relevance score for the at least one snippet based at least on the location; calculating a semantic relevance score for the at least one snippet based at least on the context term; computing a snippet score based at least on the geographic relevance score and the semantic relevance score for the at least one snippet; and ranking the at least one snippet and at least one other snippet based at least on the snippet score.