Multilayer correlation profiling engines

• US 20070130244A1
• Filed: 12/06/2006
• Published: 06/07/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Cingular Wireless II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Chien, Herman, Ryan, James, Swanburg, Scott, Wuthnow, Mark, Smith, Roger
• Granted Patent: US 8,238,939 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/200
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/016 After-sales
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles

Abstract

A profiling engine is disclosed. The profiling engine collects information from a variety of sources in real time and stores the information in a profile. The profile may have a number of layers, each layer having a number of categories. The profile is made available for use by applications and services.

Claims

1. A multilayer correlating profiling engine, comprising:

a plurality of profiling engines capable of compiling user information, in real time, into a plurality of profiles; and

a data repository to store the plurality of profiles generated by the plurality of profiling engines;

wherein the plurality of profiles are available to applications and services on either a network or a device.

2. The profiling engine of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of profiling engines is a personal profiling engine.

3. The profiling engine of claim 1, wherein one of the plurality of profiling engines is a community profiling engine.

4. The profiling engine of claim 1, wherein the user information and the plurality of profiles comprise a plurality of layers.

5. The profiling engine of claim 4, wherein each layer comprises a plurality of categories.

6. The profiling engine of claim 1, wherein the user information comprises at least one location information, time information, and device information.

7. The profiling engine of claim 1, wherein the plurality of profiling engines collects information about a user'"'"'s interaction with a network and about a user'"'"'s interaction with applications on at least one of the users mobile devices.

8. A computer readable medium with data stored therein, the data comprising:

a plurality of profiles;

wherein the profiles are compiled from user information collected in real time from networks and devices; and

wherein the plurality of profiles are available to applications and services on a network or on a user device.

9. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the plurality of user profiles and user information comprise a plurality of layers.

10. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein each layer in the plurality of layers comprise a plurality of categories.

11. The computer readable medium of claim 10, wherein the plurality of categories comprise voice, browse, messaging, and download.

12. The computer readable medium of claim 9, wherein the plurality of layers comprise supersegmentation, interrelation, applications, and signaling.

13. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the user information comprises location, time, and device information.

14. The computer readable medium of claim 8, wherein the plurality of profiles comprise a plurality of personal profiles and a plurality of community profiles.

15. A method for generating a profile, comprising the steps of:

collecting user information from a plurality of sources in real time;

compiling the user information into a plurality of profiles;

storing the plurality of profiles into a data repository; and

making the plurality of profiles available to a plurality of applications and services.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of profiles comprise a plurality of personal profiles and a plurality of community profiles.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the plurality of profiles and the user information comprise a plurality of layers and each layer comprises a plurality of categories.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the plurality of layers comprise supersegmentation, interrelation, applications, and signaling.

19. The method of claim 17, wherein the plurality of categories comprise voice, messaging, browse, and download.

20. The method of claim 15, wherein the user information comprises location, time, and device information.