Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Matching anonymized user identifiers across differently anonymized data sets
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Application No.: US15416711Application Date: 2017-01-26
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Publication No.: US10783172B2Publication Date: 2020-09-22
- Inventor: Stephen Milton , Duncan McCall
- Applicant: PlaceIQ, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NY New York
- Assignee: PlaceIQ, Inc.
- Current Assignee: PlaceIQ, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NY New York
- Agency: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP
- Agent Joshua Tucker
- Main IPC: G06F16/29
- IPC: G06F16/29 ; G06F16/23 ; G06F16/2458 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
Provided is a process of obtaining a plurality of location data sets from different providers of user geolocation history, each location data set including a plurality of user-activity records, each user-activity records being associated with a user identifier and including geolocations of the corresponding user and times that the corresponding user was at the geolocations, the different providers having different user identifiers for a given corresponding user; matching, by one or more processors, the user identifiers between the location data sets based on geolocations of the corresponding user and times that the corresponding user was at the geolocations; and storing the matched user identifiers in association with one another in corresponding user profiles.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170147606A1 MATCHING ANONYMIZED USER IDENTIFIERS ACROSS DIFFERENTLY ANONYMIZED DATA SETS Public/Granted day:2017-05-25
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