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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2010
Arunesh Mishra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ravi Jain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Arunesh Mishra, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ravi Jain, Palo Alto, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for geographic annotation of electronic resources. In one aspect, a method includes generating a spatial index for a plurality of resources from a plurality of distinct publishers, including, for each resource of the plurality of resources: receiving a plurality of location data points for the resource, each location data point corresponding to one of a plurality of requests for the resource, and assigning each location data point for the resource to a spatial cluster of a plurality of spatial clusters, each spatial cluster corresponding to a particular geographic region. The spatial index is stored. The spatial index is used to identify a plurality of address locations for resources assigned to a spatial cluster corresponding to a first geographic region in response to a request from a requester to identify resources associated with the first geographic region.