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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Tomkins, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Sergei Vassilvitskii, New York, NY (US);
Shanmugasundaram Ravikumar, Berkeley, CA (US);
Mohammad Mahdian, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bo Pang, Sonnyvale, CA (US);
Prabhakar Raghavan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus related to determining a characteristic of a location based on visit data associated with the location. Visit data indicative of travel of users to a first location from one or more other locations and/or of travel of users from the first location to one or more other locations may be utilized to determine information about the location. In some implementations visit data may be utilized to determine a connectedness measure and associate the second location with the first location based on the connectedness measure. A characteristic of the first location may optionally be determined based on a characteristic of the second location and/or an attribute associated with the visit data.