Patents by Inventor Robert Malcolm Fraser

Robert Malcolm Fraser has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Determining semantic place names from location reports
    Patent number: 9787557
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining semantic place names from one or more location reports received from a user device are provided. High quality visits for a candidate semantic place location from a plurality of previously obtained location reports can be aggregated and used to generate a point cloud for the semantic place location. A high quality visit can correspond to a visit by a device that is determined to be associated with a candidate semantic place location with greater likelihood relative to a plurality of other candidate semantic place locations. Data associated with one or more point clouds can be accessed and used to support determinations of semantic place name for one or more location reports. In example embodiments, the semantic place name can be stored as part of a location history and/or provided for display in a user interface presented on a display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Leblanc, Robert Malcolm Fraser, Min-yian Su, Jesse Rosenstock, Bhaskar Mehta, Tanmay Sanjay Khirwadkar
  • Determining Semantic Place Names from Location Reports
    Publication number: 20160323159
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining semantic place names from one or more location reports received from a user device are provided. High quality visits for a candidate semantic place location from a plurality of previously obtained location reports can be aggregated and used to generate a point cloud for the semantic place location. A high quality visit can correspond to a visit by a device that is determined to be associated with a candidate semantic place location with greater likelihood relative to a plurality of other candidate semantic place locations. Data associated with one or more point clouds can be accessed and used to support determinations of semantic place name for one or more location reports. In example embodiments, the semantic place name can be stored as part of a location history and/or provided for display in a user interface presented on a display device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2015
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Inventors: Gabriel Leblanc, Robert Malcolm Fraser, Min-yan Su, Jesse Rosenstock, Bhaskar Mehta, Tanmay Sanjay Khirwadkar