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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 24, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2011
Andrea Frome, Berkeley, CA (US);
Howard Wellington Trickey, Westfield, NJ (US);
Melanie Clements, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Ethan G. Russell, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Paul Eastlund, Mamaroneck, NY (US);
Diego Ariel Gertzenstein, Sudbury, MA (US);
Douglas Richard Grundman, Rosemont, PA (US);
Baris Yuksel, New York, NY (US);
Andrea Frome, Berkeley, CA (US);
Howard Wellington Trickey, Westfield, NJ (US);
Melanie Clements, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Ethan G. Russell, Jersey City, NJ (US);
Paul Eastlund, Mamaroneck, NY (US);
Diego Ariel Gertzenstein, Sudbury, MA (US);
Douglas Richard Grundman, Rosemont, PA (US);
Baris Yuksel, New York, NY (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for determining whether given business listings are spam or are closed businesses. In one example, a system receives a business listing from a user. The business listing contains a geolocation and the name of a business. The system also receives one or more street level images related to a geographic object that is at or near the same geolocation as the business listing. The system determines if the business listing is spam or is closed based on the received street level images by determining if the geographic object is the business or by analyzing whether the business associated with the listing is shown in any of the street level images.