Patents Assigned to Factual, Inc.
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Patent number: 9977792Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for providing a location information analytics mechanism. The location information analytics mechanism is configured to analyze location information to extract contextual information (e.g., profile) about a mobile device or a user of a mobile device, collectively referred to as a target entity. The location information analytics mechanism can include analyzing location data points associated with a target entity to determine features associated with the target entity, and using the features to predict attributes associated with the target entity. The set of predicted attributes can form a profile of the target entity.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: FACTUAL INC.Inventors: Tyler Bell, Bill Michels, Spencer Tipping, Tom White, Boris Shimanovsky
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Patent number: 9753965Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, systems, and methods relate to a location query mechanism that can efficiently determine whether a target entity is located within a region of interest (ROI). At a high level, the location query mechanism can be configured to represent a ROI using one or more polygons. The location query mechanism can, in turn, divide (e.g., tessellate) the one or more polygons into sub-polygons. Subsequently, the location query mechanism can use the sub-polygons to build an index system that can efficiently determine whether a particular location is within any of the sub-polygons. Therefore, when a computing device queries whether a particular location is within the region of interest, the location query mechanism can use the index system to determine whether the particular location is within any of the sub-polygons.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: FACTUAL INC.Inventors: Ahad Rana, Boris Shimanovsky
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Patent number: 9594791Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for providing a location information analytics mechanism. The location information analytics mechanism is configured to analyze location information to extract contextual information (e.g., profile) about a mobile device or a user of a mobile device, collectively referred to as a target entity. The location information analytics mechanism can include analyzing location data points associated with a target entity to determine features associated with the target entity, and using the features to predict attributes associated with the target entity. The set of predicted attributes can form a profile of the target entity.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Factual Inc.Inventors: Tyler Bell, Bill Michels, Spencer Tipping, Tom White, Boris Shimanovsky
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Patent number: 9317541Abstract: A traditional data processing system is configured to process input data either in batch or in real-time. On one hand, a batch data processing system is limiting because the batch data processing often cannot take into account any data received during the batch data processing. On the other hand, a real-time data processing system is limiting because the real-time system often cannot scale. The real-time data processing system is often limited to dealing with primitive data types and/or a small amount of data. Therefore, it is desirable to address the limitations of the batch data processing system and the real-time data processing system by combining the benefits of the batch data processing system and the real-time data processing system into a single data processing system.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2014Date of Patent: April 19, 2016Assignee: Factual Inc.Inventors: Boris Shimanovsky, Ahad Rana, Chun Kok
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Patent number: 8959070Abstract: Processes and systems are disclosed for accessing and providing information obtained from a source. The processes and systems allow for accessing data stored in an electronic storage medium and providing a first set of information derived from the data stored in the storage medium. The processes and systems also provide a second set of information comprising detail data underlying the summary data.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2009Date of Patent: February 17, 2015Assignee: Factual Inc.Inventor: Gilad Elbaz
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Publication number: 20140289188Abstract: A traditional data processing system is configured to process input data either in batch or in real-time. On one hand, a batch data processing system is limiting because the batch data processing often cannot take into account any data received during the batch data processing. On the other hand, a real-time data processing system is limiting because the real-time system often cannot scale. The real-time data processing system is often limited to dealing with primitive data types and/or a small amount of data. Therefore, it is desirable to address the limitations of the batch data processing system and the real-time data processing system by combining the benefits of the batch data processing system and the real-time data processing system into a single data processing system.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Applicant: FACTUAL, INC.Inventors: Boris SHIMANOVSKY, Ahad RANA, Chun KOK
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Publication number: 20140274154Abstract: The disclosed apparatus, systems, and methods relate to a location query mechanism that can efficiently determine whether a target entity is located within a region of interest (ROI). At a high level, the location query mechanism can be configured to represent a ROI using one or more polygons. The location query mechanism can, in turn, divide (e.g., tessellate) the one or more polygons into sub-polygons. Subsequently, the location query mechanism can use the sub-polygons to build an index system that can efficiently determine whether a particular location is within any of the sub-polygons. Therefore, when a computing device queries whether a particular location is within the region of interest, the location query mechanism can use the index system to determine whether the particular location is within any of the sub-polygons.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: FACTUAL, INC.Inventors: Ahad RANA, Boris SHIMANOVSKY
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Publication number: 20140274022Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for providing a location information analytics mechanism. The location information analytics mechanism is configured to analyze location information to extract contextual information (e.g., profile) about a mobile device or a user of a mobile device, collectively referred to as a target entity. The location information analytics mechanism can include analyzing location data points associated with a target entity to determine features associated with the target entity, and using the features to predict attributes associated with the target entity. The set of predicted attributes can form a profile of the target entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Factual, Inc.Inventors: Tyler BELL, Bill MICHELS, Spencer TIPPING, Tom WHITE, Boris SHIMANOVSKY
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Publication number: 20140279757Abstract: The present application relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for grouping data records based on entities referenced by the data records. The disclosed grouping mechanism can include determining a pair-wise similarity between a large number of data records, and clustering a subset of the data records based on their pair-wise similarity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: FACTUAL, INC.Inventors: Boris SHIMANOVSKY, Manuel LAGANG, Leonid POLOVETS
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Publication number: 20140279674Abstract: The present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for analyzing characteristics of entities of interest. In particular, the present disclosure provides a mechanism for analyzing information about entities of interest and for rating or scoring the entities of interest based on the analyzed information. The rating or the score of an entity of interest can sometimes be referred to as a placerank value of an entity of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Factual, Inc.Inventors: Bill MICHELS, Tyler BELL, Tim CHKLOVSKI, Manuel LAGANG, Boris SHIMANOVSKY
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Publication number: 20140279811Abstract: The present disclosure provides apparatus, systems, and methods for crowdsourcing domain specific intelligence. The disclosed crowdsourcing mechanism can receive domain specific intelligence as a data processing rule module. For example, a data analytics system can request a crowd of software developers to provide a data processing rule module tailored to process a particular type of information from a particular domain. When the data analytics system receives the data processing rule module from one of the software developers for the particular domain, the data analytics system can use the received data processing rule module to process information associated with the particular domain.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Factual, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey SU, Boris SHIMANOVSKY