Labeling locations based on contact information

• US 10,469,994 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2018
• Issued: 11/05/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Google LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Hawkins, Dale, Stamm, Thomas Carl, Kirmse, Andrew, Udeshi, Tushar
• Primary Examiner(s): Rampuria, Sharad
• Application Number:
  US15/990,657
• Publication Number:
  US 20180279088A1
• Time in Patent Office: 527 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/222 using geographical location information, e.g. messages transmitted or received in proximity of a certain spot or area
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72457 according to geographic location
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

The systems and techniques disclosed herein provide the ability to present, via a user interface, an indication of a geographic location to a user, determining that the geographic location corresponds to an address included in contact information for one of several contacts of the user, the contact information further including a name; receive, via the user interface, an indication that the geographic location is to be associated with the name included in the contact information; generate a location label for the geographic location, using the name included in the contact information; and outputting an indication of the location label.

Claims

1. A method for labeling geographic locations, the method comprising:

presenting, via a user interface, an indication of a geographic location to a user;

determining, by one or more processors, that the geographic location corresponds to an address included in contact information for one of a plurality of contacts of the user,

including identifying a most proximate address from among respective addresses of the plurality of contacts of the user, the contact information further including a name;

receiving, via the user interface, an indication that the geographic location is to be associated with the name included in the contact information;

generating, by the one or more processors, a location label for the geographic location, using the name included in the contact information; and

outputting, by the one or more processors, an indication of the location label.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the geographic location corresponds to the address included in the contact information includes:

determining partial matches between the geographic location and respective addresses of several of the plurality of contacts of the user; and

prompting the user to select the contact information from the several of the plurality of contacts of the user.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein determining the partial matches includes determining whether an address is within a certain accuracy radius of the geographic location.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein prompting the user to select the contact information includes prompting the user for “

home”

or “

work”

designation.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the indication of the geographic location to the user includes providing a latitude/longitude position.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein outputting the indication of the location label includes presenting the name included in the contact information via an interface for viewing location history data for the user.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein determining that the geographic location corresponds to the address included in the contact information includes processing an email message from the contact.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

executing a search query for the geographic location;

wherein determining that the geographic location corresponds to the address included in the contact information is response to determining that the search query yields no results for the geographic location.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the location label is generated using the name included in the contact information in a first instance, the method further comprising:

in a second instance, determining that a second geographic location does not correspond to any addresses for one of the plurality of contacts of the user;

determining, by the one or more processors, that a second user assigned a label to the geographic location; and

generating, by the one or more processors, a location label for the geographic location based on the label the second user assigned.

10. A non-transitory computer-readable memory encoded with instructions that, when executed by one or more or more processors of a computing device, cause the one or more processors to:

present, via a user interface, an indication of a geographic location to a user;

determine that the geographic location corresponds to an address included in contact information for one of a plurality of contacts of the user,

including identify a most proximate address from among respective addresses of the plurality of contacts of the user the contact information further including a name;

receive, via the user interface, an indication that the geographic location is to be associated with the name included in the contact information;

generate a location label for the geographic location, using the name included in the contact information; and

output an indication of the location label.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable memory of claim 10, wherein to determine that the geographic location corresponds to the address included in the contact information, the instructions cause the one or more processors to:

determine partial matches between the geographic location and respective addresses of several of the plurality of contacts of the user; and

prompt the user to select the contact information from the several of the plurality of contacts of the user.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable memory of claim 11, wherein to determine the partial matches, the instructions cause the one or more processors to determine whether an address is within a certain accuracy radius of the geographic location.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable memory of claim 11, wherein to prompt the user to select the contact information, the instructions cause the one or more processors to prompt the user for “

home”

or “

work”

designation.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable memory of claim 10, wherein to present the indication of the geographic location to the user, the instructions cause the one or more processors to provide a latitude/longitude position.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable memory of claim 10, wherein to output the indication of the location label, the instructions cause the one or more processors to present the name included in the contact information via an interface for viewing location history data for the user.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable memory of claim 10, wherein to determine that the geographic location corresponds to the address included in the contact information, the instructions cause the one or more processors to process an email message from the contact.

17. The non-transitory computer-readable memory of claim 10, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

execute a search query for the geographic location;

wherein to determine that the geographic location corresponds to the address included in the contact information is response to determining that the search query yields no results for the geographic location.

18. The non-transitory computer-readable memory of claim 10, wherein the location label is generated using the name included in the contact information in a first instance, wherein the instructions further cause the one or more processors to:

in a second instance, determine that a second geographic location does not correspond to any addresses for one of the plurality of contacts of the user;

determine that a second user assigned a label to the geographic location; and

generate a location label for the geographic location based on the label the second user assigned.