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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:
Dec. 06, 2022

Filed:

May. 12, 2021
Applicant:

Valassis Digital Corp., Morrisville, NC (US);

Inventor:

Patrick Nicholson, Durham, NC (US);

Assignee:

Valassis Digital Corp., San Antonio, TX (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); G06K 9/62 (2022.01); H04L 9/06 (2006.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/022 (2013.01); G06K 9/6218 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 61/5007 (2022.05); H04W 64/003 (2013.01);
Abstract

Reliable location data is found using messages with unreliable location data. A logistic-geohash is found for a plurality of messages. Records of are accessed data messages, each data message including a geographic locator and a sender-identifier. For each sender-identifier, one or more geogroups are determined. For each geogroup: determining, a representative point of the geogroup is found to represent the geogroup. Using the representative point of the geogroup, a geogroup-geohash is found. Pair of geogroup: logistic address are found based on a matching of at least some of the first plurality of digits and some of the second plurality of digits. For each pair of geogroup:logistic address, a distance is determined between the representative point of the geogroup and the representative point of the logistic address. Geogroup:logistic address pairs are selected. The selected geogroup:logistic address pairs are stored in memory as representing a logistic location of the sender-identifier.


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