Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Crowdsourced search and locate platform
- Patent Title (中): 众包搜索和定位平台
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Application No.: US14010450Application Date: 2013-08-26
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Publication No.: US09122708B2Publication Date: 2015-09-01
- Inventor: Luke Barrington , Nathan Ricklin , Shay Har-Noy
- Applicant: DigitalGlobe, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CO Longmont
- Assignee: DIGITALGLOBE INC.
- Current Assignee: DIGITALGLOBE INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CO Longmont
- Agency: Galvin Patent Law LLC
- Agent Brian R. Galvin
- Main IPC: G06Q30/02
- IPC: G06Q30/02 ; G06Q10/10 ; G06Q10/06 ; G06Q30/06 ; G06Q10/08 ; G06F17/30

Abstract:
A crowdsourced search and locate platform, comprising an application server and a crowdrank server. The application server: receives connections from crowdsourcing participants; navigates a first crowdsourcing participant to a specific geospatial location; sends an image corresponding to the geospatial location to the first crowdsourcing participant; receives tagging data from the first crowdsourcing participant, the tagging data corresponding to a plurality of objects and locations identified by the first crowdsourcing participant. The crowdrank server: retrieves a plurality of tags made by participating users computes agreement and disagreement values for each of the plurality of retrieved tags; performs an expectation-maximization or expectation-minimization process iteratively until a configured maximum number of iterations is performed or until an indicia of rate of change between iterations falls below a configured threshold; and provides resulting output values corresponding to geolocations of objects of a plurality of types to an administrative user.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140236851A1 CROWDSOURCED SEARCH AND LOCATE PLATFORM Public/Granted day:2014-08-21
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