SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING WEBSITE POPULARITY BY LOCATION

摘要

Internet websites that are popular for users in a specific location are determined and displayed to a user of an electronic device. The popularity information may be of benefit to users in the location or to users of inherently portable devices, such as a mobile telephone or a laptop computer, that travel to the location. In one embodiment, position data relating to devices used to access websites is used to establish statistics regarding the most visited websites based on location. For instance, positioning data may be added to “webpage look-up/URL requests” that are made by the devices. This data may be transmitted to a server for deriving of the statistics.

主权项

1. A method of providing website data to a particular electronic device, comprising:
collecting and storing Internet usage data from plural electronic devices, the collected and stored Internet usage data including:
websites visited by each of the plural electronic devices; andfor each visited website, the position of the electronic device used to visit the website when the website was visited; receiving a current position of the particular electronic device; analyzing the collected and stored Internet usage data to determine a website that was visited by electronic devices from a location encompassing the position of the particular electronic device more than other websites that were visited by electronic devices from the location encompassing the position of the particular electronic device; and transmitting an identification of the determined website to the particular electronic device.