Apple Inc.

Telenav Gmbh

Zehua Zhou

Liviu Teodor Popescu

Michael P Dal Santo

Richard B Warren

Pejman Lotfali Kazemi

Hyo Jeong Shin

Danil Yuryevich Zvyagintsev

Weili Shao

Ronald Keryuan Huang

Lukas Michael Marti

Aliasgar Mumtaz Husain

Lili Cao

Jeffrey Michael Bartunek

In an example method, a computer system receives a query from a mobile device, including an indication of a location of the mobile device, and an environmental measurement obtained by the mobile device at the location. A set of candidate points of interest in geographical proximity to the location is determined. For each of one or more candidate points of interest of the set, a location fingerprint of the candidate point of interest and contextual data regarding the candidate point of interest are obtained. A similarity between the environmental measurement and each location fingerprint is determined. A particular candidate point of interest is selected from among the set based on the similarity, and based on an assessment of the contextual data. A label of the selected point of interest is associated with the location and transmitted to the mobile device.

Harvesting labels for significant locations based on candidate points of interest and contextual data

Crowd-sourced localized application usage data is collected from mobile devices at a usage location and sent to a network-based service. The network-based service analyzes the data to determine a single most relevant application correlated to the usage location. Once the most relevant application is determined, a recommendation for the application is sent to client devices operating at the usage location. In some implementations the data is processed to determine whether the usage location is a chained venue, a large venue or an event. Once the usage location has been determined, the most relevant application can be selected for recommendation.

Most relevant application recommendation based on crowd-sourced application usage data

A method of operation of a navigation system includes: generating an extraction job including a crawl task based on a location of a point of interest and a web form type of a website for harvesting the point of interest from the website; receiving a heartbeat from a distributed cache for determining when a client device is available to execute the extraction job; generating an assignment schedule of the extraction job based on the heartbeat for distributing the extraction job to the client device to retrieve a location-based field; and receiving the location-based field associated with the point of interest for displaying on a monitor device.

Navigation system with point of interest harvesting mechanism and method of operation thereof

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Zehua Zhou