Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Techniques for inferring a location
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Application No.: US13871570Application Date: 2013-04-26
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Publication No.: US09635116B2Publication Date: 2017-04-25
- Inventor: Sathyanarayan Anand , Ganesh Ramesh , Alexis Blevins Baird
- Applicant: LinkedIn Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
- Current Assignee: LinkedIn Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Sunnyvale
- Agency: Schwegman Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.
- Main IPC: H04L29/08
- IPC: H04L29/08 ; G06Q50/00 ; G06Q30/02

Abstract:
Disclosed in some examples is a method including receiving a plurality of transaction records, each of the transaction records including data about a particular transaction engaged in by a member of a social networking service and including a geographic location and a timestamp of the particular transaction; scoring each of the plurality of transaction records based upon the recency of the transaction; clustering the plurality of transaction records into a plurality of clusters, each cluster including transaction records which contain similar geographic locations; creating an aggregate score for each particular one of the plurality of clusters based upon a sum total of the scores calculated for each transaction record clustered into the particular cluster; and creating a probability distribution based upon the scores for the plurality of clusters, the probability distribution indicating a probability that the member was in each of the plurality of locations represented by the clusters.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140324964A1 TECHNIQUES FOR INFERRING A LOCATION Public/Granted day:2014-10-30
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