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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 08, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 11, 2021
Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
William Bullock, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Meta Platforms, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a method includes generating predicted locations of each of a plurality of network addresses, wherein each predicted location is associated with a time stamp representing an age of the predicted location, determining a weighting factor representing a probability that at least one of the predicted locations of the network address corresponds to a true location of the network address based on location-related features associated with each network address and the time stamps, determining a weight for each predicted location based on at least the weighting factor, wherein the weight represents a probability that the predicted location corresponds to the true location of the network address, and providing one or more of the predicted locations that correspond to a particular network address based on the respective weights of the predicted locations in response to a request to identify a geographic location for the particular network address.