Patent ID: 11899696
Assignee: SAFEGRAPH, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 18:
19. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium impressed with computer program instructions to generate a multi-part place identifier with at least one part, the instructions, when executed on a processor, being configured to cause the processor to implement a method comprising:
receiving a location address and a place name from a user;
validate the location address to provide a validated location address;
calculating a geocode for the validated location address;
using the calculated geocode to identify a geometrical boundary encompassing the location address;
encoding the identified geometrical boundary as an alpha-numeric identifier forming a Where part of the multi-part place identifier;
encoding the validated location address as at least a portion of a What part of the multi-part place identifier to create a validated location address encoding using base-28 and comprising a sequence of at least three alpha numeric characters; and
providing the multi-part place identifier to the user.