Patent Document ID: 7596581
Application ID: 10990588

Base Claim:
1. A method representing a document that is identified through a query that specifies a geographic location and a keyword or phrase, the method comprising: determining a document-to-place relevance score for the identified document which is a measure of the identified document's relevance to the geographic location specified in the query; determining a document-to-word relevance score for the identified document which is a measure of the identified document's relevance to the keyword or phrase specified in the query; determining an abstract quality score for the identified document which is a measure of a quality that is independent of the geographical location and the keyword or phrase; and combining the document-to-place relevance score, the document-to-word relevance score, and the abstract quality score to generate a combined relevance score for the identified document.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining the abstract quality score takes into account how many other documents refer to the specified geographic location.