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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2013
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., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer-implemented method and system of quarantining user location information receives from a user device user location information that includes personally identifiable user data and user position data associated with one or more geographic positions of the user. The user location information is temporarily stored in a quarantine data storage database for a predetermined quarantine time, during such time it can be used for various analyses. After the quarantine time, personally identifiable user data of the user location information is filtered out before the user position data is sent for long-term storage to a filtered data storage system.