US 12,442,653 B2
Displaying personalized landmarks in a mapping application
Haroon Baig, Mountain View, CA (US); and Ankit Gupta, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 5, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/377,208.
Application 18/377,208 is a continuation of application No. 16/488,513, granted, now 11,821,747, previously published as PCT/US2018/049664, filed on Sep. 6, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2024/0027217 A1, Jan. 25, 2024
Int. Cl. G01C 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC G01C 21/3644 (2013.01) [G01C 21/3641 (2013.01); G01C 21/3682 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for providing a personalized landmark on a digital map to locate a geographic search result, the method comprising:
receiving, at one or more processors, a selection of a point of interest within a digital map presented on a portable device of a user;
obtaining, by the one or more processors, a location history for the user;
identifying, by the one or more processors, a plurality of candidate landmarks within a threshold distance of the selected point of interest;
selecting, by the one or more processors, one of the plurality of candidate landmarks for providing the user with a frame of reference for the selected point of interest by ranking the plurality of candidate landmarks based at least in part on a frequency in which the user has visited each candidate landmark according to the location history; and
causing, by the one or more processors, an indicator representing the selected landmark and an indicator represented the selected point of interest to be presented within the digital map.