Identifying geospatial patterns from device data

US8504512B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Shai Herzog · Bellevue, US
• Jyh-Han Lin · Coral Springs, US
• Miller Thomas Abel · Mercer Island, US
• Moe Khosravy · Kirkland, US
• Katrika Woodcock · Reading, GB
• Karon A. Weber · San Francisco, US
• James Kai Yu Lau · Bellevue, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 2, 2009
• Grant date: Aug 6, 2013
• Expiry date: Jun 5, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B29/007
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Determining geospatial patterns from device data collected from a plurality of computing devices. The devices represent, for example, a plurality of sources providing the device data. The device data describes the computing devices and/or environments thereof. Some embodiments present the determined patterns to users for editing, update maps with the edited patterns, and distribute the maps to the users. The maps are stored to create a searchable map library.