Patent Document ID: 9047370
Application ID: 12416896

Base Claim:
1. A method of associating nation information with a document, the method comprising the steps of: determining whether a top-level domain indicated in a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of a host is a national domain; and in response to determining that the top-level domain of the host is not a national domain: (a) determining which particular nations said host is associated with based on factors other than said top-level domain, and (b) associating the document with at least one of said particular nations; wherein the top-level domain is a suffix that follows a last period in a host name of the host in the URL; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.

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Claim 7:
7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the step of determining which particular nations said host is associated with based on factors other than said top-level domain includes the steps of: determining a language associated with the document; determining whether the language belongs to a first set of languages; in response to determining that the language belongs to the first set of languages, associating, with the document, one or more nations associated with the language.