Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Location data for defining places and traffic
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Application No.: US16252540Application Date: 2019-01-18
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Publication No.: US10686744B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Patrick Brendan Maginnis , Michael John McKenzie Toksvig , Erick Tseng
- Applicant: Facebook, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Facebook, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Menlo Park
- Agency: Baker Botts L.L.P.
- Main IPC: H04L12/58
- IPC: H04L12/58 ; H04W4/029 ; H04W4/021 ; H04L29/08 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W64/00

Abstract:
In one embodiment, a computing device selects a number of location updates from users which corresponds to a place. Each location update includes data indicating a geographic location that a user was at, and a time corresponding to when the user was at the geographic location. The computing device selects a first subset of the location updates which have geographic locations within a particular geographic area. For each location update in the first subset, the computing device determines a corresponding user and time. The computing device selects a second subset of location updates, each location update in the second subset corresponding to a user from the first subset, and a time within a threshold time of the time of the location update in the first subset. The computing device generates a probability map based on a distribution of geographic locations corresponding to the location updates in the second subset.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190158445A1 Location Data for Defining Places and Traffic Public/Granted day:2019-05-23
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