Identifying personalized meaningful locations

摘要

A system and method for identifying and labeling locations frequented by a user of a device, where the system and method track geographic positions and environmental or contextual factors as the user moves about, and identify locations of interest to the user via a clustering procedure. As the device collects contextual data, the system and method label each identified location to create a location model. This model allows the device to label new locations as they arise. The model may be periodically updated by separately processing geographic position data gathered after the model was created to determine if the cluster locations and labels remain accurate.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
collecting, by a processor of a device, data for each of a plurality of geographic positions to generate a location data set, the data for each of the plurality of geographic positions including one or more features associated with at least one of environmental data and user behavior data collected at the geographic position; extracting, by the processor, from the location data set at least one feature that distinguishes the data associated with a first subset of the geographic positions from the data associated with a second distinct subset of the geographic positions; clustering, by the processor, the location data set to generate a plurality of distinct clusters of data and associated geographic positions therefrom based on the extracted at least one feature; and automatically assigning, by the processor, a respective textual label to each of the plurality of distinct clusters.