Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Determining transportation status using network connections
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Application No.: US14505312Application Date: 2014-10-02
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Publication No.: US09836725B2Publication Date: 2017-12-05
- Inventor: Tal Cohen
- Applicant: Google Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee: GOOGLE LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Johnson, Marcou & Isaacs, LLC
- Priority: IL229671 20131128
- Main IPC: G06Q50/30
- IPC: G06Q50/30 ; G06Q10/10

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining travel information. One of the methods includes obtaining flight information for each of a plurality of users, the flight having a flight identifier and associated with a particular scheduled departure time and departure location; based on the scheduled departure time, obtaining location information for user devices associated with each user of the plurality of users; determining that the respective user devices associated with a first group of users of the plurality of users, has a location associated with the departure location; determining that the respective mobile devices associated with users of the first group are no longer in communication a mobile network; and using the respective times at which the user devices are determined to no longer be in communication with the mobile network along with the scheduled departure time to determine a departure time.
Public/Granted literature
- US20150149087A1 DETERMINING TRANSPORTATION STATUS USING NETWORK CONNECTIONS Public/Granted day:2015-05-28
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