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Cross lingual location search

US8364462B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

Joseph M. Joy · Bengaluru, IN
Tanuja Abhay Joshi · Redmond, US
Udayan Khurana · New York, US
Arumugam Kumaran · Bengaluru, IN
Vibhuti Singh Sengar · Redmond, US
Tobias W. M. Kellner · Bischofswiesen, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Jun 25, 2008
Grant date	Jan 29, 2013
Priority date	—
Expiry date	May 18, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F40/53
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A cross-lingual location search uses a combination of translation and transliteration of query tokens to develop a set of candidate matches for further searching. A query is broken up into individual tokens (e.g. address parts) and a list of transliterations and/or translations for each token is developed. The translated and transliterated results are keyed against a spatial database using both literal database keys and transliterated database keys. Matches from the resulting searches are selected when a spatial overlap, or constraint, occurs among subsequences of the query tokens.

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