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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2018
Paypal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Xin Li, Shanghai, CN;
Jun Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Yang Yu, Shanghai, CN;
Xiaohan Yun, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Chao Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Frédéric Tu, Shanghai, CN;
Zhijun Ling, Shanghai, CN;
Libin Sun, Shanghai, CN;
Christopher Tang, Union City, CA (US);
PAYPAL, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided that includes accessing, by a server provider server of a service provider, a database storing associations between network addresses and locations. Additionally, the method includes determining a subset of the database corresponding to a first network address, each association included in the subset corresponding to an association between the first network address and a respective location. The method also includes in response to determining that the subset of the database satisfies one or more clustering criteria, calculating a representative location corresponding to the first network address, and storing an association between the first network address and the representative location in a second database.