Google patents map updates based on user confirmation of business locations
This filing describes a system that links location data from mobile devices to specific places, or points of interest, on a map. It allows users to confirm or correct these associations through direct input, which then updates the map data shown to other people.
In the filing’s own words
Methods and apparatus related to associating location data with one or more entities. Location data from, for example, mobile devices carried by users, may indicate a first entity as being associated with the given location data. However, one or more affirmative user inputs may indicate that a second entity is additionally, and/or alternatively associated with location data. Accordingly, location data may be associated with the second entity. In some implementations the first entity may be dissociated from the first location data. In some implementations second location data may be identified as being associated with the first entity and the second location data may be associated with the first entity.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: receiving, from a mobile device, data associated with an indicated geographic location of the mobile device; determining, using one or more processors, the indicated geographic location from the received data; identifying, using the one or more processors, a first association between a first point of interest (POI) and the determined indicated geographic location; receiving an affirmative user input from the mobile device; modifying, using the one or more processors, the first association between the first point of interest (POI) and the determined indicated geographic location when the affirmative user input correlates the first POI with the indicated geographic location or when the affirmative user input correlates the first POI with a geographic location distinct from the indicated geographic location; receiving a request from a user for information relating to the location of the POI; and providing for display to the user, using the one or more processors and based on the modification, the first POI on a map.
Facts
- Company
- Google (Google LLC)
- Official title
- Location Refinement
- Publication number
- US20260300329A1
- Application number
- 19705154
- Filed
- Jun 11, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 1
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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