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Systems and methods to identify home addresses of mobile devices

  • US 9,503,863 B2
  • Filed: 02/03/2016
  • Issued: 11/22/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented in a computing device, the method comprising:

  • receiving, in the computing device, data identifying a set of location instances in a period of time, each respective location instance of the location instances identifying;

    a mobile device,a location of the mobile device, anda timestamp of the location of the mobile device in the period of time; and

    determining, by the computing device, a home of each respective mobile device by;

    identifying, by the computing device, a set of regions in which the location instances are located;

    computing, by the computing device, a visitation dataset for each respective region visited by the respective mobile device, wherein the visitation dataset identifies a plurality of frequencies of visitations of different types;

    filtering, by the computing device, regions visited by the respective mobile device to identify one or more region candidates; and

    in response to a determination that the respective mobile device has more than one region candidate resulting from the filtering,computing, by the computing device from the visitation dataset, a score for each of the more than one region candidate; and

    selecting, from the more than one region candidate and by the computing device according to the computed score, the home of the respective mobile device.

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