Patent ID: 8229464

Claim:
A method of identifying correlated locations based on information received from a plurality of client devices over a network, the method comprising: receiving, from each client device, information indicating a geographic location and at least one action taken at that geographic location; for each action associated with a particular client device, identifying a weighted value based on that action for the particular client device at the geographic location; for each client device, storing in a database an association between the weighted value and the geographic location; and identifying a correlation between a first geographic location and a second geographic location based on the stored associations, wherein identifying the correlation includes: generating, from the stored associations, a plurality of vectors, each vector associated with a given geographic location and including at least some of the plurality of client devices and the weighted value associated with each of the at least some of the plurality of client devices at that given location; receiving information identifying the first geographic location from a first client device; identifying a vector of the plurality of vectors associated with the first geographic location; and comparing the identified vector and other vectors of the plurality of vectors to determine if a correlation exists.