Patent ID: 9706352
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method for determining a boundary of a geographical area, the method comprising: identifying, by one or more computing devices, a plurality of point of interest (POI) names associated with the geographical area from one or more web documents, wherein identifying the plurality of POI names comprises retrieving the one or more web documents using a web crawling component and detecting, in the one or more web documents, a plurality of patterns from a list of predetermined patterns, each pattern including a POI name and a geographical area name arranged in a predetermined manner; locating, by the one or more computing devices, in a POI database, a plurality of POI listings corresponding to the identified POI names; determining, by the one or more computing devices, location coordinates derived from each of the POI listings; when a number of instances of detection of the geographic area reaches a threshold, calculating, by the one or more computing devices, the boundary of the geographical area, wherein the calculating step includes: storing, by the one or more computing devices, data indicative of the boundary of the geographical area in a database containing information associated with the geographical area.