Onboard advance search refinement
View Patent ↗A method of refining a search comprising receiving, by a mobile communication device, a user input, the user input defining a search request; refining, by the mobile communication device, the search request based on a user profile; sending, by the mobile communication device, the refined search request to a search engine; receiving, by the mobile communication device, a search result from the search engine; displaying, by the mobile communication device, the search result.
1. A method of refining a search comprising:
receiving, by a mobile communication device, a user input, the user input defining a search request;
intercepting, by the mobile communication device, the search request;
refining, by the mobile communication device, the intercepted search request based on a user profile associated with a user of the mobile communication device and stored on the mobile communication device, wherein the user profile comprises information about the user's use of the mobile communication device that is monitored and captured by a provider of mobile communication services, and wherein the information about the user's use of the mobile communication device comprises one or more of information about electronic purchases completed at least in part by the mobile communication device, information about power cycles of the mobile communication device, a number of voice calls, or a number of text messages;
sending, by the mobile communication device, the refined search request to a search engine;
receiving, by the mobile communication device, a search result from the search engine; and
displaying, by the mobile communication device, the search result.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein refining the search request comprises adding search terms to the search request.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein displaying the search result further comprises displaying a prioritized list of links to content.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information is monitored and captured by the provider without user awareness via a user profiling application executing on the mobile communication device.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the information about the user's use of the mobile communication device further comprises one or more of information about content access completed by the mobile communication device, or a number of data sessions completed by the mobile communication device.
6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the user profile comprises a user criterion, and wherein the user criterion comprises one or more of a user gender, a user age, a user demographic, and a user preference.
7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the user preference comprises one or more of a dining preference, a sports preference, a movie preference, a fuel preference, a location preference, a travel preference, a route preference, and an accommodations preference.
8. A mobile communication device for refining search results comprising:
a radio transceiver;
a memory;
a processor coupled to the memory; and
an application stored in the memory of the mobile communication device that, when executed by the processor:
receives a user input, the user input defining a search request;
sends the search request via the radio transceiver to a search engine;
intercepts a search result from the search engine;
refines the intercepted search result based at least on a user profile associated with a user of the mobile communication device and stored on the mobile communication device, wherein the user profile comprises information about the user's use of the mobile communication device that is monitored and captured by a provider of mobile communication services, and wherein the information about the user's use of the mobile communication device comprises one or more of information about electronic purchases completed at least in part by the mobile communication device, information about power cycles of the mobile communication device, a number of voice calls, or a number of text messages; and
displays the refined search result on the mobile communication device.
9. The mobile communication device of claim 8 , wherein the application refines the search result based on a user profile associated with a second mobile device, the second mobile device being proximate to the mobile communication device.
10. The mobile communication device of claim 8 , wherein the search result further comprises a plurality of links to content, and wherein the application further prioritizes the plurality of links based at least in part on the user profile.
11. The mobile communication device of claim 8 , wherein the user profile comprises one or more of a user gender, a user age, a user demographic, and a user preference.
12. The mobile communication device of claim 11 , wherein the user preference comprises one or more of a dining preference, a sports preference, a movie preference, a fuel preference, a location preference, a travel preference, a route preference, and an accommodations preference.
13. A method of refining a search comprising:
receiving, by a mobile communication device, a user input, the user input defining a search request;
sending, by the mobile communication device, the search request to a search engine;
intercepting, by the mobile communication device, a search result from the search engine;
refining, by the mobile communication device, the intercepted search result based at least on a user profile associated with a user of the mobile communication device and stored on the mobile communication device, wherein the user profile comprises information about the user's use of the mobile communication device that is monitored and captured by a provider of mobile communication services, and wherein the information about the user's use of the mobile communication device comprises one or more of information about electronic purchases completed at least in part by the mobile communication device, information about power cycles of the mobile communication device, a number of voice calls, or a number of text messages; and
displaying, by the mobile communication device, the refined search result.
14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the search result comprises a plurality of links to content.
15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the user profile comprises one or more of a user gender, a user age, a user demographic, and a user preference, and wherein the refining is based on a determination of one or more of a time of day, a user location, and a day of the week.
16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the user preference comprises one or more of a dining preference, a sports preference, a movie preference, a fuel preference, a location preference, a travel preference, a route preference, and an accommodations preference.
17. The method of claim 13 , wherein the search result comprises at least one link to content, and wherein when the search result comprises more than one link to content, prioritizing the links based on a user preference.
18. The method of claim 17 , wherein prioritizing the links comprises sorting the links, highlighting the links, and embedding navigational aids to filter the links.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the mobile communication device further refines the search result based on a user profile of a nearby second mobile communication device.