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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2016
Ninthdecimal, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Yury Zhyshko, Minsk, BY;
Veronica Milenkiy, Burlingame, CA (US);
Elena Rose, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Mark Christopher Dixon, Belmont, CA (US);
Kevin Toshio Ching, Berkeley, CA (US);
Keith Kilpatrick, San Francisco, CA (US);
NINTHDECIMAL, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods including mobile devices determining their location using a location determination system, such as a global positioning system. A database stores the identifiers of cells representative of predefined regions in a hierarchical grid system. The location coordinates as function of time are converted to visitation patterns of the mobile devices to the predefined regions, based on converting the coordinates to cell identifiers and searching the database to find matches between the cell identifiers representing the regions and the cell identifiers representing the mobile device locations. For example, mobile devices having similar visitation patterns can be identified and divided into two groups; and information relevant to a region is transmitted to one of the group but not another. The visitation patterns of the two group after the transmission is identified and compared to measure a difference.