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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 28, 2012
Filed:
May. 07, 2010
Yan Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sam Liang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Chu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Yuhua Luo, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhengrong Ji, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yan Yu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Sam Liang, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Chu, Los Altos, CA (US);
Yuhua Luo, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhengrong Ji, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountian View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method and system of building a user reputation database for use in a user location data system. The method and system receive user location information containing personally identifiable data of a user and user position data. The user position data may or may not represent one or more actual geographic positions of the user. The user location information is temporarily stored and analyzed to provide a spam score associated with the user position data indicative of whether the user position data represents the actual geographic positions of the user. Data indicative of the spam score is also provided to user reputation database to store a user reputation score associated with the user.