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Apparatus and Method for Determining the Quality or Accuracy of Reported Locations

  • US 20150149091A1
  • Filed: 11/25/2014
  • Published: 05/28/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/25/2013
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method of ascertaining the accuracy of geolocations in a collection of location histories, the method comprising:

  • obtaining a collection of location histories describing user geolocations over a duration of time exceeding 24 hours,each location history including;

    a location-history identifier distinguishing the respective location history from other location histories among the collection of location histories, andtime-stamped geolocation coordinates specifying geographic locations associated with a respective mobile computing device among a plurality of mobile computing devices each corresponding to at least one of the location histories,the collection of location histories describing geolocations of the plurality of mobile computing devices over time;

    analyzing, with one or more processors, the collection of location histories by, at least in part, calculating one or more quality attributes of the collection of location histories indicative of differences between the collection of location histories and other collections of location histories known to be of adequate quality;

    calculating one or more quality scores based on the one or more quality attributes; and

    storing the one or more quality scores in memory.

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