Techniques for establishing and using associations between location profiles and beacon profiles

A method of establishing and using semantic associations between location profiles and ambient profiles by a location information management application executing on one or more computers, comprising:

• selecting, by the location information management application from a location database, one or more location profiles;
• selecting, by the location information management application from a reference database, a first plurality of ambient profiles, the ambient profiles including beacon profiles for beacons that are located within a first area surrounding one or more geographic locations of the location profiles or sensor profiles for sensor readings captured by sensors of mobile devices within the first area surrounding one or more geographic locations of the location profiles;
• extracting one or more patterns from the first plurality of ambient profiles and using the patterns to generate associations between location profiles and ambient profiles in an association database which semantically associates location profiles with ambient profiles independent of geographic location;
• and
• based on the semantic associations between the location profiles and the associated ambient profiles, updating one or more ambient profiles or location profiles.

A non-transitory electronic-device readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed on one or more processors of an electronic device operable to:

• select one or more location profiles;
• select a first plurality of ambient profiles, the ambient profiles including beacon profiles for beacons that are located within a first area surrounding one or more geographic locations of the location profiles or sensor profiles for sensor readings captured by sensors of mobile devices within the first area surrounding one or more geographic locations of the location profiles;
• extract one or more potential patterns from the first plurality of ambient profiles;
• extract one or more generic patterns from the second plurality of ambient profiles;
• remove from the potential patterns any of the one or more generic patterns to produce one or more remaining patterns;
• and
• generate associations between location profiles and ambient profiles in an association database based on the one or more remaining patterns.