US 11,775,590 B2
Techniques for disambiguating clustered location identifiers
Benedikt M. Hirmer, San Francisco, CA (US); Kevin Bessiere, Cupertino, CA (US); and Eric Circlaeys, Los Gatos, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/102,061.
Application 17/102,061 is a continuation of application No. 16/219,602, filed on Dec. 13, 2018, granted, now 10,846,343, issued on Nov. 24, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/729,619, filed on Sep. 11, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0073281 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/906 (2019.01); G06F 16/901 (2019.01); G06F 16/909 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); G06N 5/022 (2023.01)
CPC G06F 16/906 (2019.01) [G06F 16/909 (2019.01); G06F 16/9024 (2019.01); G06F 16/9537 (2019.01); G06N 5/022 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by one of more processors of a computing device, comprising:
identifying a collection of digital assets having at least a first digital asset and a second digital asset, the collection of digital assets being stored on the computing device;
determining a first geographic location for a location cluster of digital assets comprising the first digital asset and the second digital asset based, at least in part, on location metadata associated with the first digital asset;
determining a location identifier for the first geographic location, wherein the location identifier is within a target range of the first geographic location;
calculating a confidence metric for the first digital asset indicating a degree of confidence that the first digital asset was generated at a location corresponding to the location identifier, wherein calculating the confidence metric for the first digital asset comprises accessing a knowledge graph stored in the computing device for a determination that the location metadata associated with the first digital asset is consistent, at least in part, with a meaning associated with the location identifier; and
associating the first digital asset with the location identifier, in accordance with the confidence metric exceeding a confidence threshold.