Patent ID: 11861516
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A system, comprising:
at least one processor;
a memory; and
computer program code stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, wherein the computer program code is executable by the at least one processor to:
identify a picture having (i) one or more first annotations appended to the picture by one or more users and (ii) location metadata;
determine, based, at least in part, on the location metadata of the picture, a probability distribution of the one or more first annotations appended to the picture over two or more geographic locations, wherein the probability distribution is based, at least in part, on a probability of an annotation being present in a set of annotations associated with a geographical location;
responsive to determining the probability distribution of the one or more first annotations appended to the picture over the two or more geographic locations, store, in a data store, the probability distribution of the one or more first annotations appended to the picture over the two or more geographic locations;
determine a second picture upon which one or more second annotations have been appended by one or more second users; and
determine one or more geographical locations corresponding to the second picture based, at least in part, on (i) the one or more second annotations appended to the second picture by the one or more second users and (ii) the probability distribution of the one or more first annotations appended to the picture over the two or more geographic locations.