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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 06, 2006
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2002
Stefan B. Edlund, San Jose, CA (US);
Jussi Petri Myllymaki, San Jose, CA (US);
Stefan B. Edlund, San Jose, CA (US);
Jussi Petri Myllymaki, San Jose, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Analysis of a history of previous location reports received from a tracked entity is performed and this analysis is utilized to estimate the relevance of future location reports over time. This is accomplished via associating a computed expiration time with each location report, wherein this expiration time is used by an application to estimate the relevance degradation of a location report over time. Thus, the expiration time value acts as a threshold that controls the shape of a relevance degradation curve of a location report.