US 11,699,140 B2Granted

Geographic location consensus determination

AssigneePaypal, Inc.

InventorsBradley Wardman, Nathan Pratt, Ilya Chernyakov, Yotam Perkal, Yuri Shafet

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Abstract

Techniques are disclosed relating to determining whether geographic locations of a user computing device satisfy a location consensus threshold. A computer system receives results of a plurality of location determination operations, each of which specifies a geographic location of a computing device initiating an action. The computer system then makes a determination whether the received results satisfy a consensus threshold as to geographic location of the computing device. In some embodiments, the determination is usable to select, from a plurality of sets of rules for different geographic regions, a particular set of rules for processing the action. In some cases, the particular set of rules is usable to determine whether to process the action. Such techniques may advantageously allow a processing system to understand how to process actions initiated by a computing device associated with different geographic locations.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising:

receiving, by a server computer system, location results of one or more location determination operations, each of which specifies a geographic location of a computing device that is different from the server computer system and is initiating an action, wherein the one or more location determination operations include at least global positioning system (GPS) data identification;
performing, by the server computer system, a location determination operation, including identifying a location of an edge server accessed by the computing device to retrieve content, wherein the identifying includes:
accessing respective lists of computing devices maintained by one or more edge servers, wherein the respective lists indicate one or more computing devices that have accessed the one or more edge servers;
determining, based on scraping the respective lists of computing devices, whether the computing device initiating the action is included on one or more of the respective lists;
and
storing, based on determining that the computing device initiating the action is included on one or more lists, a location of the one or more edge servers storing the one or more lists that include the computing device initiating the action;
and
comparing, by the server computer system, the received location results and the location of the edge server to determine whether one or more of the locations are located within the same geographic region;
and
making, by the server computer system based on the comparing and according to a consensus threshold policy, a determination whether the locations satisfy a consensus threshold as to geographic location of the computing device;
wherein the determination is usable to select, from a plurality of sets of rules for different geographic regions, a particular set of rules for processing the action, and wherein the particular set of rules is usable to determine whether to process the action.

8 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a user computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request to perform an action;
performing a plurality of location determination operations, at least one of which is performed using a global positioning system (GPS) data source, wherein results of the plurality of location determination operations and results of a location determination of an edge server accessed by the user computing system to retrieve content that is determined by a server computer system are usable to determine, based on whether the one or more of the results indicate the same geographic region, whether a location consensus threshold has been satisfied, wherein results of the location determination of the edge server are determined by:
accessing respective lists of computing devices maintained by one or more edge servers, wherein the respective lists indicate one or more computing devices that have accessed the one or more edge servers;
determining, based on evaluating the respective lists of computing devices, whether the computing device initiating the action is included on one or more of the respective lists;
and
storing, based on determining that the computing device initiating the action is included on one or more lists, a location of the one or more edge servers;
and
indicating whether the action is authorized.

5 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that are executable by a user computing system to perform operations comprising:

receiving a request to perform a transaction via a transaction computing system;
performing a first location determination operation, including determining, based on a global positioning system (GPS) data source, a first geographic location of the user computing system;
receiving a result of a second location determination operation performed at the transaction computing system, wherein the second location determination operation includes:
accessing respective lists of computing devices maintained by one or more edge servers, wherein the respective lists indicate one or more computing devices that have accessed the one or more edge servers;
determining, based on the respective lists of computing devices, whether the user computing device initiating the transaction is included on one or more of the respective lists;
and
storing, based on determining that the computing device initiating the transaction is included on one or more lists, a location of the one or more edge servers storing the one or more lists that include the computing device initiating the transaction;
and
using results of a plurality of location determination operations that include the first and second location determination operations to:
perform a comparison of geographic regions indicated by the plurality of location determination operations to determine whether one or more of the results are located within the same geographic region;
and
select, based on the comparison, a particular one of a plurality of different sets of rules for processing the transaction.

9 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/731,976Filed 31 Dec 2019
Published: US 2021/0201290 A11 Jul 2021
Granted: 11 Jul 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06Q 20/3224
Aspects of commerce using mobile devices [M-devices]: transactions dependent on location of M-devices
H04W 12/73
Identity-dependent: access point logical identity
G01S 19/10
Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers: providing…
G06Q 20/4015
Transaction verification: using location information