Patent Document ID: 9483495
Application ID: 13853996
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method, comprising: receiving, using one or more computing devices and from a user computing device, a search query comprising data indicative of a point of interest and a time of year, wherein the time of year includes a range of dates or a season; retrieving, using the one or more computing devices, geographic data comprising a logical hierarchy of terms indicating relationships between one or more geographic destinations or points of interest including at least the point of interest; identifying, using the one or more computing devices, a plurality of photographs using an index of photographs, the plurality of photographs being identified from the index as photographs geographically related to the point of interest and having a creation timestamp corresponding to the time of year; determining for each of the plurality of photographs, using the one or more computing devices, a relevancy score based at least in part on: selection success data of the photograph for image queries referring to the point of interest, wherein the selection success data comprises click through data for the photograph responsive to the image queries referring to the point of interest, and references to the point of interest in documents that are associated with the photograph, wherein determining references to the point of interest that are associated with the photograph comprises: identifying electronic documents associated with the photograph based on one or more criteria; and determining which of the documents associated with the photograph reference the point of interest, wherein a document is determined to reference the point of interest when the document comprises terms that are relevant to the point of interest identified from the geographic data comprising the logical hierarchy of terms; and selecting, using the one or more computing devices, a particular photograph from the plurality of photographs based at least in part on the respective relevancy score for each photograph; and providing, using the one or more computing devices and to the user computing device, the particular photograph in response to the search query for presentation of the particular photograph via the user computing device.