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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Rohan Seth, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua J. Sacks, San Carlos, CA (US);
Michele Covell, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Michael Chu, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Shumeet Baluja, Leesburg, VA (US);
David Marwood, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for providing a method that comprises: determining excess queries over multiple time periods for a given geographic feature, where the geographic feature defines a location; comparing geographic features for similarity based at least in part on the excess queries associated with a respective geographic feature; and for a given target geographic feature, determining one or more similar geographic features based on the comparing.