US 12,086,127 B2
Refining location estimates and reverse geocoding based on a user profile
Christopher Lambert, San Francisco, CA (US); Michael Chu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US); and Rohan Seth, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed by Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 14, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/720,805.
Application 17/720,805 is a continuation of application No. 15/908,934, filed on Mar. 1, 2018, granted, now 11,314,715, issued on Apr. 26, 2022.
Application 15/908,934 is a continuation of application No. 14/545,018, filed on Mar. 16, 2015, granted, now 9,953,047, issued on Apr. 24, 2018.
Application 14/545,018 is a continuation of application No. 12/437,718, filed on May 8, 2009, abandoned.
Prior Publication US 2022/0245118 A1, Aug. 4, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G01S 5/02 (2010.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/23 (2019.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06Q 30/02 (2023.01); H04L 67/306 (2022.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/18 (2009.01); G01C 21/36 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 16/23 (2019.01) [G01S 5/021 (2013.01); G01S 5/0244 (2020.05); G06F 16/2228 (2019.01); G06F 16/29 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06F 16/955 (2019.01); G06Q 30/02 (2013.01); H04L 67/306 (2013.01); H04L 67/52 (2022.05); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/18 (2013.01); G01C 21/3682 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
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1. A method for processing information for places of interest, comprising:
extracting, from a database, a result set, the result set including one or more items of geographical information and corresponding time information for each item of the one or more items of the geographical information;
performing geopoint extraction on the result set to obtain a set of specific physical locations for each item of the geographical information in the result set, wherein each of the specific physical locations are associated with the corresponding time information of the item of the geographical information from which the specific physical location was extracted;
filtering the set of specific physical locations to identify a first subset of the specific physical locations associated with corresponding time information within a first historical time range, the first subset having fewer specific physical locations than the set of specific physical locations;
constructing a first heat map of a geographic region for the first historical time range, the first heat map containing the first subset of the specific physical locations, wherein the first subset of the specific physical locations are ranked based on the corresponding time information within the first historical time range and presented on a first map of the geographic region; and
providing the first heat map for display.