Patent Document ID: 9129029
Application ID: 13111485

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: identifying a region defining an area of interest in response to receiving a viewport from a client device corresponding to the region including identifying a plurality of content items that are associated with the region; evaluating query logs associated with users that submitted queries associated with the region to determine a ranking associated with the plurality of content items, wherein each content item is ranked based on a number of queries in the query logs for which each content item is responsive and a time of occurrence of the number of queries, wherein each content item is ranked higher if the number of queries occurred more recently on average than other queries in the query logs and ranked lower if the number of queries occurred less recently on average than other queries in the query logs; receiving a geographic search query associated with the region; and providing one or more of the content items in response to the geographic search query to be displayed on the viewport of the client device, based at least in part on the ranking associated with each of the one or more contents items, wherein each of the one or more displayed content items are ranked above a predetermined threshold ranking, and wherein the predetermined threshold ranking is based on the viewport.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein evaluating the query logs comprises: determining which queries in the query logs are associated with a geographic location in the region and which queries in the query logs are not associated with a geographic location in the region; for each query in the query logs associated with the region, retrieving from the query logs content items sent to the user who submitted the respective query; and for each retrieved content item, updating a region-specific measure of a number of times the respective content item was responsive to a query associated with the region and ranking the respective content item based on the region-specific measure of a number of times the respective content item was responsive to a query associated with the region.