Patent Document ID: 9466029
Application ID: 14054196
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method comprising: identifying a set of unlabeled identifiers associated with a particular user, wherein an unlabeled identifier has an unknown classification as to a particular class in a multi-class demographic characteristic; for each unlabeled identifier of the set of unlabeled identifiers, producing a distribution of probabilities for the unlabeled identifier, including determining, for the unlabeled identifier, a probability of inclusion of the unlabeled identifier in the particular class of the multi-class demographic characteristic based on known behavior of the particular user; ranking, for the particular class, the set of unlabeled identifiers based on the probability for each unlabeled identifier of the set of unlabeled identifiers; determining an internet distribution of users with respect to the multi-class demographic characteristic based on characteristics of a current population survey of users; based on the internet distribution of users with respect the multi-class demographic characteristic, determining a percentage of the users that are in each class of the multi-class demographic characteristic; based on the percentage distribution of the users that are in each class of the multi-class demographic characteristic, defining, in the ranking of the set of unlabeled identifiers, a boundary between the rankings that are associated with each of two or more classes of the multi-class demographic characteristic, the two or more classes including the particular class; for each unlabeled identifier of the set of unlabeled identifiers, adjusting the probability of inclusion in the particular class of the multi-class demographic characteristic based on the boundary; and assigning a label of the particular class in the multi-class demographic characteristic to one or more of the unlabeled identifiers in accordance with the adjusting.