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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 16, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Alexander Fabrikant, East Palo Alto, CA (US);
Gueorgi Kossinets, San Francisco, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Provided is a process and system for ascertaining the operating hours of a business. The process includes obtaining wireless-environment data indicative of the location of business and a timestamp; determining that a user device is located at the business responsive to both the wireless-environment data and wireless-environment data from checked-in user devices that have checked-in to the business via a social network; storing the timestamp in a timestamp data store; estimating operating hours of the business responsive to stored timestamps; and storing the estimated operating hours in a business-hours data store.