WO2000051359A3 - Method for determining geographic location of users connected to or using a network - Google Patents

Method for determining geographic location of users connected to or using a network Download PDF

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WO2000051359A3
WO2000051359A3 PCT/US2000/004934 US0004934W WO0051359A3 WO 2000051359 A3 WO2000051359 A3 WO 2000051359A3 US 0004934 W US0004934 W US 0004934W WO 0051359 A3 WO0051359 A3 WO 0051359A3
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geographic location
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James D Mcelhiney
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Matchlogic Inc
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L61/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
    • H04L61/35—Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming involving non-standard use of addresses for implementing network functionalities, e.g. coding subscription information within the address or functional addressing, i.e. assigning an address to a function
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L61/00—Network arrangements, protocols or services for addressing or naming
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L67/00—Network arrangements or protocols for supporting network services or applications
    • H04L67/50—Network services
    • H04L67/52—Network services specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04M—TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04M3/00—Automatic or semi-automatic exchanges

Abstract

A method for determining the geographic location of users connected to a network and for determining the accuracy or confidence level of such geographic location determination includes the steps of collecting data (32) or regarding users connected to or using a network, determining the geographic location of such users using multiple techniques (34), determining or computing a confidence level for each geographic location technique used for each user (36), receiving a request for geographic location information for one of the users (38), selecting the geographic location technique to be used for the requested user (40), and sending geographic location information for the specified user to the requester (42) of the information.
PCT/US2000/004934 1999-02-26 2000-02-25 Method for determining geographic location of users connected to or using a network WO2000051359A2 (en)

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GB2418276A (en) * 2003-08-13 2006-03-22 Whereonearth Ltd Determining a likely geographical location
US7257570B2 (en) 2003-11-13 2007-08-14 Yahoo! Inc. Geographical location extraction
US9037694B2 (en) 2007-11-06 2015-05-19 Neustar Ip Intelligence, Inc. Method and system for determining the geographic location of a network block

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