Location-centric recommendation service for users
US8751427B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jan 5, 2011 |
| Grant date | Jun 10, 2014 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Dec 3, 2032 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W4/029
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for location centric user profiling and services. In one aspect, a method includes accessing historical location data specifying physical locations at which user devices were detected; accessing network data for each of the users of the user devices, the network data for each user indicative of subjective preferences of the user; for each of the users, determining physical locations specified by the location data, determining entities from the physical locations and visited by the user, determining for each entity a satisfaction measure that is indicative of a satisfaction of the user with the entity, and generating a user profile for the user specifying topics that are of interest to the user, the entities having been determined to have been visited by the user, and the satisfaction measures of the entities.
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