Christopher S Tang

US Patent:

20200267506, Aug 20, 2020

Filed:

Jan 21, 2020

Appl. No.:

16/748148

Inventors:

- San Jose CA, US
Jun Zhang - Shanghai, CN
Yang Yu - Shanghai, CN
Xiaohan Yun - Palo Alto CA, US
Chao Zhang - Shanghai, CN
Frédéric Tu - Shanghai, CN
Zhijun Ling - Shanghai, CN
Libin Sun - Shanghai, CN
Christopher Tang - Union City CA, US

International Classification:

H04W 4/029
G06F 16/906
G06Q 20/32

Abstract:

A method is provided that includes accessing, by a server provider server of a service provider, a database storing associations between network addresses and locations. Additionally, the method includes determining a subset of the database corresponding to a first network address, each association included in the subset corresponding to an association between the first network address and a respective location. The method also includes in response to determining that the subset of the database satisfies one or more clustering criteria, calculating a representative location corresponding to the first network address, and storing an association between the first network address and the representative location in a second database.