Implicit Geolocation of Social Networking Users

摘要

In one embodiment, one or more computing systems receive a request for a location prediction for a user from a service. The computing systems access one or more real-time location signals and one or more aggregated location signals. The aggregated location signals may comprise one or more previous location signals. The computing systems may then generate one or more location predictions from the one or more real-time location signals and the one or more aggregated location signals, and calculate a single location prediction for the user from the one or more location predictions. The computing systems may then send, in response to the request, the single location prediction for the user to the requesting service.

主权项

1. A method comprising, by one or more computing systems:
receiving, from a service, a request for a location prediction for a user; accessing one or more real-time location signals and one or more aggregated location signals, wherein each of the one or more aggregated location signals comprises one or more previous location signals; generating a plurality of current location predictions from the one or more real-time location signals and the one or more aggregated location signals; calculating a single location prediction for the user from the plurality of current location predictions; and sending, in response to the request, the single location prediction for the user to the requesting service.