Patent Document ID: 9245051
Application ID: 13237175

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising facilitating a processing of and/or processing (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal, the (1) data and/or (2) information and/or (3) at least one signal by a processor based, at least in part, on the following: a creation of one or more bounding boxes around one or more estimated text portions of sensor data associated with at least one device; an optical character recognition of the one or more estimated text portions within each of the one or more bounding boxes to determine recognized characters; a merger of some of the one or more bounding boxes into at least one merged box along a bounding box line of some of the estimated text portions based, at least in part, on the recognized characters within the each bounding box; an extraction, from some of the recognized characters that are within the remaining one or more bounding boxes that are not merged, of one or more search terms for at least one query based, at least in part, on the recognized characters within the at least one merged box; and a search based, at least in part, on the at least one query and the one or more search terms to generate one or more results of the at least one query, wherein the one or more bounding boxes are assigned an identification number and ranked in order from a top of an image to a bottom of the image sensed by way of an optical sensor.

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Claim 7:
7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the apparatus is further caused to: determine information comprising one or more preferences and/or behavioral tendencies of the user by way of mining the user profile to cause, at least in part, the one or more results of the at least one query to be modified based on the information.