Amazon Gets Location-based Search Patents, from the A9 Days
Amazon received two patents related to providing location-based search information for mobile devices on August 10. They were filed last summer be seem to date back to 2005 and are assigned to Amazon’s search effort A9. A9 was best known to geofolks as the first “streetview” type of effort. (I was a fan!)
First up, patents No. 7,774,002, for “Providing location-based search information”:
Common search queries can be provided that are associated with a location. A location of a mobile device can be determined, and common search queries associated with the location can be transmitted to the mobile device. A user of the mobile device is able to execute the common search queries from the mobile device.
The other patent is for “Providing location-based auto-complete functionality.”
