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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020

Filed:

Aug. 20, 2018
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Bellevue, WA (US);

Jie Liu, Medina, WA (US);

He Wang, Durham, NC (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.01); G06Q 10/10 (2012.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01); G06Q 50/00 (2012.01); G06F 16/907 (2019.01); G06F 16/335 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G10L 25/48 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/22 (2013.01); G06F 16/335 (2019.01); G06F 16/337 (2019.01); G06F 16/907 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01); G06Q 10/103 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0205 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0261 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0267 (2013.01); G06Q 50/01 (2013.01); H04L 67/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/21 (2018.02); G10L 25/48 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various technologies pertaining to crowd sourcing data about an entity, such as a business, are described. Additionally, technologies pertaining to inferring metadata about the entity based upon crowd sourced data are described. A sensor in a mobile computing device is activated responsive to a user of the mobile computing device checking in at an entity. Metadata, such as occupancy at the entity, noise at the entity, and the like is inferred using the data captured by the sensor. A search result for the entity includes the metadata.


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