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Method and device for determining service area

  • US 9,998,861 B2
  • Filed: 12/09/2016
  • Issued: 06/12/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for determining a service area corresponding to a provider communication account, comprising:

  • determining candidate communication accounts that have communicated with the provider communication account within a historical time period of a preset time length;

    acquiring geographical positions corresponding to the candidate communication accounts;

    determining a service area corresponding to the provider communication account according to the geographical positions; and

    recommending the provider communication account to a communication account, according to the determined service area corresponding to the provider communication account;

    wherein determining the service area corresponding to the provider communication account includes;

    for a selected geographical position selected from the acquired geographical positions;

    determining distances between the selected geographical position and other geographical positions, anddeleting, if a number of other geographical positions that have a distance to the selected geographical position larger than a preset threshold distance is greater than a preset threshold number, the selected geographical position; and

    determining the service area according to remaining geographical positions after the deleting is performed.

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