Patent Document ID: 8688696
Application ID: 13169117

Base Claim:
1. One or more computer-readable storage media comprising computer-executable instructions for generating a ranked list of entities associated with search results, the computer-executable instructions directed to steps comprising: receiving search results to a location relevant query; deriving entities from the received search results; determining whether the location relevant query is semantically charged; ranking the derived entities as a single set only if the location relevant query is either not semantically charged or is an entity search; dividing, only if the location relevant query is semantically charged, the entities into at least a first part and a second part according to at least one relevance threshold such that those entities associated with a higher relevance than the at least one relevance threshold comprise the first part and those entities associated with a lower relevance than the at least one relevance threshold comprise the second part; ranking the entities in the first part utilizing a first ranking methodology; ranking the entities in the second part utilizing a second ranking methodology that is independent from the first ranking methodology; and concatenating the ranked entities in the second part onto an end of the ranked entities in the first part.

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Claim 4:
4. The computer-readable storage media of claim 1 , comprising further computer-executable instructions for excluding the derived entities that are geographically located outside of a geographic region defined by a bounding box.