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Relevance assessment for location information received from multiple sources

  • US 20030130987A1
  • Filed: 01/07/2002
  • Published: 07/10/2003
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A system for assessing relevance location information received from multiple sources, said system comprising:

  • a. at least one database;

    b. a location receiver receiving location related data and storing said location related data in said database, each of said location related data associated with a precision value;

    c. a client association manager associating one or more tracking clients with one or more users, said client association manager calculating a stationary confidence and a moving confidence for combinations of tracking clients and users, said calculated values stored in said database, and d. a location query engine receiving a request for identifying a location of a client, said location query engine extracting and sorting current location data associated with said client, and said location query engine identifying and resolving temporal or spatial conflicts in said sorted location data based on at least said calculated confidence values.

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