Patent Document ID: 9582548
Application ID: 14584432

Base Claim:
1. A method, utilizing at least one computing processor and memory, of geocoding resources based on contained text, the method comprising: obtaining bodies of text included in resources; identifying, in the bodies of text, tokens referring to geographic locations, each geographic location being referred to by at least one token; identifying canonical identifiers of the geographic locations based on the tokens, each geographic location being associated with at least one canonical identifier; and for a given resource referencing a given geographic location: identifying off-page resources that refer to the given resource; scoring relevance of the given resource to the given geographic location as a function of (i) at least a quantity of first tokens in the given resource, the first tokens corresponding to a given canonical identifier of the given geographic location and (ii) at least a quantity of second tokens in the off-page resources, the second tokens corresponding to the given canonical identifier of the given geographic location; and responsive to the score exceeding a certain threshold, designating the given resource as relevant to the given geographic location in the memory.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the scoring relevance of the given resource to the given geographic location comprises: calculating a likelihood that the given resource is relevant to the given geographic location based further on placement or specificity of the first tokens in the given resource that refer to the given geographic location.