Patent Document ID: 9602965
Application ID: 14935263

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising, by one or more computing devices of an online social network: receiving, from a mobile-client system of a first user of the online social network, geographic-location information associated with the mobile-client system; identifying a plurality of candidate place-entities associated with the online social network that correspond to the geographic-location information, wherein each candidate place-entity is associated with a particular geographic location; determining, for each candidate place-entity, a confidence score based on the geographic-location information associated with the mobile-client system and a location-probability distribution associated with the candidate place-entity, wherein the confidence score represents a probability that the first user is located at the candidate place-entity; and sending, to the mobile-client system of the first user, information associated with one or more of the candidate place-entities having a confidence score above a threshold confidence score.

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Claim 12:
12. The method of claim 1 , wherein: the location-probability distribution associated with the candidate place-entity comprises a power-law distribution centered at a point, the point corresponding to the particular geographic location of the candidate place-entity; and the confidence score is further based on a value of the power-law distribution at a geographic location of the mobile-client system.