DETERMINING RELATIVE INTEREST LEVELS OF TOURISTS AND LOCALS IN POINTS OF INTEREST

Patent №

US 9,852,436

Granted

2017-12-26

Filed 2013

Owner

GOOGLE INC.

AI components

3

kr · planning · evo

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14051386

Systems and methods for determining whether a point-of-interest (POI) corresponds to a tourist location are provided. A method includes receiving a set of assessments for the POI. Each assessment in the set of assessments includes an associated user account. Each assessment in the set of assessments includes a web-based assessment or an in-person assessment of the POI by the associated user account. The method also includes, for plural assessments in the set of assessments, determining whether the associated user account is a tourist user account or a local user account. The method also includes determining a touristiness value for the POI based on a number of in-person assessments including an associated tourist user account, a number of in-person assessments including an associated local user account, a number of web-based assessments including an associated tourist user account, or a number of web-based assessments including an associated local user account.

AI classification

Planning1.00
Knowledge representation1.00
Evolutionary computation0.96
Machine learning0.01
AI hardware0.01
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

GOOGLE INC.

assignment · 314560505

Assignors

BRAUN, MAX BENJAMIN, CASEY, MATTHEW RYAN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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