Poynt has been given a patent for delivering multi-mode location based E-directory services, enabling method, system and apparatus.
The patent marks an important protective feature and barrier to entry for competitors of the company’s location-based search model, allowing for the delivery of location-based, contextual and relevant data, sorted by proximity to users.
This granted patent allows a method of returning proximity sorted directory results to a mobile device user, based on automatic location detection on a mobile communication device and a search query.
At least one e-directory query result and one web query result are compared, results are sorted based on proximity to the location detected, duplicates are deleted, and the results are delivered to the users. In some cases, additional information related to the listing, such as promotions or websites, are added to the results.