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SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA COLLECTION TO VALIDATE LOCATION DATA

  • US 20130225202A1
  • Filed: 02/24/2012
  • Published: 08/29/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for providing geolocation data, the apparatus coupled to receive data from multiple mobile devices wirelessly coupled to a network, the apparatus comprising:

  • at least one data storage device for storing geolocation data received from the multiple mobile devices,wherein the geolocation data includes place data and corresponding latitude and longitude coordinate data, andwherein at least some of the place data includes names of buildings located at corresponding latitude and longitude coordinates;

    at least one server computer coupled to the data storage device, wherein the server computer is configured to receive data from the multiple mobile devices and toprovide sets of questions to individual users of the multiple mobile devices,wherein each set of questions includes a request for a user response and includes multiple place names that may correspond to a latitude and longitude location where one of the mobile devices is or was located;

    receive, from individual users of the multiple mobile devices, place name responses to the sets of questions,wherein each response includes a selection of one of the multiple place names for the location where the one mobile device is or was located; and

    ,store, in the data storage device, the received place name responses from the individual users in response to the sets of questions,wherein the received place name responses are associated in the data storage device with corresponding latitude and longitude coordinate data.

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