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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
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, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Prabhakar Raghavan, Saratoga, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus related to associating a quality measure with a given location. For example, an anticipated distance value for a given location may be identified that is indicative of anticipated time and/or distance to reach the given location. At least one actual distance may be identified that is indicative of actual time for the one or more members to reach the given location. In some implementations, the anticipated/actual distance values may include one or more distributions. A quality measure is then determined based on a comparison of the anticipated distance value and the identified actual distance value. The quality measure is associated with the given location. The quality measure may be further based on additional factors.