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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 02, 2013
Filed:
May. 13, 2010
Applicants:
LI Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Maya Haridasan, San Jose, CA (US);
Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Inventors:
Li Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Maya Haridasan, San Jose, CA (US);
Chandramohan A. Thekkath, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06N 7/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The location of a user over time is monitored by a mobile device. The monitored locations are organized into tracks that describe a path or route that the user took over a period of time. Segments that correspond to each of the tracks are determined. The segments may correspond to road on a map, or some other standardization. The segments are associated with their corresponding tracks, and used to identify similar tracks or to generate similarity scores for pairs of tracks.