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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2011
Bruce Campbell, Hertfordshire, GB;
Devesh Patel, Cupertino, CA (US);
Soren Riise, Ruislip, GB;
Ramesh Pai, San Jose, CA (US);
Bruce Campbell, Hertfordshire, GB;
Devesh Patel, Cupertino, CA (US);
Soren Riise, Ruislip, GB;
Ramesh Pai, San Jose, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present application is directed to systems and methods for associating a geographic location with an IP address. Generally, an IP address associated with each of a plurality of browser cookies is determined, where each of the plurality of browser cookies indicate a geographic location such as a home address or business address of a user. A geo tag is associated with each of the plurality of browser cookies and a subset of the plurality of browser cookies including browser cookies associated with a first IP address is identified. The subset of the plurality of browser cookies is clustered into a spatial cluster including browser cookies associated with geo tags located within a defined distance of a geo tag of at least one other browser cookie of the cluster. A geographic location associated with a geographic center of the cluster is then associated with the first IP address.