Patent ID: 9303996
Filing Date: 2016-04-05
CPC Classification: G01C,G06F,G06Q,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: receiving an application program, the application program being associated with metadata indicating that the application program is associated with a point of interest (POI) in a POI database, the POI having a street address and a geocoded location including latitude longitude coordinates corresponding to the street address, the geocoded location being determined through address interpolation of the street address; receiving, from each of a plurality of mobile devices, application usage data, the application usage data indicating an event of executing the application program by a respective mobile device, the event being associated with a device location, the device location being a location of the respective mobile device at time of executing the application program by the respective mobile device; determining a crowd-sourced location based on the application usage data, including: designating, in the POI database, the crowd-sourced location as a location of the point of interest; and changing a presentation of a location of the POI, wherein the crowd-sourced location, in place of the geocoded location, is presented as the location of the POI, wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.