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Locating mobile users

  • US 10,152,548 B2
  • Filed: 06/08/2016
  • Issued: 12/11/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2015
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method, comprising:

  • detecting, by a computer, that a respective user device for one or more particular users has entered a particular physical space;

    registering, by the computer, the respective user device for the one or more particular users at the particular physical space;

    associating, by the computer, each of the one or more particular users with a respective user profile;

    monitoring, by the computer, a location of each of the particular users within the particular physical space based on a corresponding location of the respective user device, wherein monitoring includes;

    limiting monitoring within certain areas of the particular physical space, wherein the particular users are not tracked in the certain areas if the particular users are within a predefined range of a blackout area;

    receiving, by the computer, a search query for a particular type of user within the particular physical space;

    determining, by the computer, one or more resultant users that correspond to the particular type of user based on the associated respective user profiles;

    determining, by the computer, a location of the one or more resultant users;

    determining, by the computer, utilization of areas within the particular physical space based on the monitoring; and

    displaying, on a graphical user interface (GUI), the location of the one or more resultant users on a virtualized map of the particular physical space, wherein the location of the one or more resultant users within certain areas of the physical space are not displayed on a virtualized map.

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