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Network traffic forecasting for non-ticketed events

  • US 10,477,416 B2
  • Filed: 10/13/2017
  • Issued: 11/12/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2017
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method comprising:

  • estimating a number of people expected to attend a non-ticketed event, based on electronic data including social media postings, wherein the estimating the number of people expected to attend the non-ticketed event comprises;

    generating a popularity score for the non-ticketed event, based at least in part on the social media postings, wherein the popularity score is calculated as a number of mentions of the non-ticketed event in the social media postings within a defined window of time divided by a number of mentions of the non-ticketed event in the social media postings that originate at a geographic location of the non-ticketed event; and

    calculating the number of people expected to attend the non-ticketed event as the popularity score multiplied by a maximum capacity of the non-ticketed event;

    estimating a per-person amount of network traffic expected to be generated on a communications network during the non-ticketed event, based at least in part on historical per-person network traffic statistics for a historical event of a similar type to the non-ticketed event;

    calculating an amount of total network traffic expected to be generated during the non-ticketed event, based at least on the number of people expected to attend the non-ticketed event and the per-person amount of network traffic; and

    implementing a modification to an infrastructure of the communications network in the geographic location of the non-ticketed event, based at least in part on the amount of total network traffic expected to be generated during the non-ticketed event.

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