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

Claim 13:
14. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing thereon computer-readable instructions, the computer-readable instructions being executable by one or more processors to:
access one or more annotations appended to one or more pictures by one or more users;
determine a probability distribution of one or more geographical locations over the one or more annotations, 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 geographical locations over the one or more annotations, store, in a data store, the probability distribution of the one or more geographical locations over the one or more annotations;
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 second 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 geographical locations over the one or more annotations appended to the one or more pictures by the one or more users.