Patent ID: 8307071

Claim:
A method to be executed at least in part in a computing device for location determination in networked communication systems, the method comprising: determining whether a target computing device is mainly used locally; if the target computing device is mainly used locally, determining whether the target computing device is a multi-user device; if the target computing device is a multi-user device, determining whether a user of interest is a primary user of the target computing device; if the user of interest is the primary user of the target computing device, retrieving physical location information for the user of interest; determining a confidence metric based on one or more of a local use to remote use ratio, on a peak usage ratio for local users of the target computing device, and input from the user of interest; assigning a low confidence value to the confidence metric if the confidence metric is determined based on the input from the user of interest; and providing the physical location information and the confidence metric to a location-based service.