Patent ID: 11868145
Assignee: AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 9:
10. The method of claim 4, wherein identifying the population data for the at least some of the geospatial areas of the region comprises:
retrieving population distribution data for each of a plurality of geographic subsets of the region from at least one data store over a network, wherein the population distribution data identifies numbers of people located in individual ones of the geographic subsets of the region, and wherein each of the geographic subsets has a width of one second of latitude and a height of one second of longitude; and
identifying individual ones of the plurality of geographic subsets associated with at least one of the geospatial areas,
wherein calculating the reliability scores for the individual ones of the plurality of cells based at least in part on the population data comprises:
calculating population densities of the individual ones of the plurality of geographic subsets associated with the at least one of the geospatial areas, wherein the population densities of the individual ones of the plurality of geographic subsets associated with the at least one of the geospatial areas are calculated by dividing the numbers of people living in the individual ones of the geographic subsets of the region by products of the widths and the heights of the individual ones of the geographic subsets; and
assigning the population densities of the individual ones of the plurality of geographic subsets associated with the at least one of the geospatial areas with the at least one of the geospatial areas.