Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determining geolocation of IP addresses using user transitions over time
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Application No.: US16386871Application Date: 2019-04-17
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Publication No.: US10887409B2Publication Date: 2021-01-05
- Inventor: Arnab Nandi , Ryan D. Clark , Siddhartha Cingh Arora , Benjamin James Gaska
- Applicant: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; G06F16/29 ; G06F16/9537 ; H04L29/12 ; H04L29/06

Abstract:
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for determining geolocation for networks (e.g., IP addresses) for which accurate geolocation information in unknown. Various techniques are described for determining the physical location of networks by tracking user/device movement across different networks, and more particularly by tracking movement of particular users and/or devices from networks with known geolocation to networks with unknown geolocation. Aspects of the technology include using time and network address information (e.g., IP addresses) from user's queries and merging this information with known geolocation information to create new, high quality, geolocation mappings for previously unseen networks.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190245936A1 Determining Geolocation of IP Addresses Using User Transitions Over Time Public/Granted day:2019-08-08
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