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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2017
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Dominique Marcel Georgette Van de Sompel, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael John McKenzie Toksvig, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a computing system receives a first set of location updates sent by a first user. Each location update corresponds to a user visit to a particular place, and each location update is determined by a mobile client device of the corresponding user via a first or a second location method. The computing system receives a second set of location updates sent by a second user, sent via only the first location method. A place-visit factor for the second user is calculated based on the total number of unique places visited by the second user within a particular period of time, a first number of places visited by the first user determined from location updates sent via the first location method, and a second number of places visited by the first user determined from location updates sent via the second location method.