Tempo Spatial Data Extraction From Network Connected Devices

• US 20090286550A1
• Filed: 02/05/2009
• Published: 11/19/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/15/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Brane World Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Brane Wolrd Limited
• Inventors: Weinroth, Erez
• Application Number:
  US12/365,979
• Publication Number:
  US 20090286550A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

A computer implemented data processing system for extracting user related tempo-spatial data from a cellular network comprising a plurality of cells, each cell comprising at least one cell sector, wherein each cell sector is in communication with a plurality of network-connected devices, and wherein each device is associated with a user profile. The system comprising: a computer component aggregation module, wherein the cellular network comprises: a network-connected raw database, a network-connected device profiles database, a unique identifier and a location module. The aggregation module receives from the cellular network combined data exhibiting identified network-connected devices with their corresponding profiles, and aggregates in response, profile each identified network-connected device with the corresponding location code thereby creating an anonymous aggregated user related data. The system may create, using geo-statistical methods a geographic information system (GIS) layer presenting the anonymous aggregated profiles classes associated with geographical locations.

Claims

1. A computer implemented data processing system of extracting user related tempo-spatial data from a network comprising a plurality of cells, each cell comprising at least one cell sector, wherein each cell sector is in communication with a plurality of network-connected devices, and wherein each device is associated with a user profile, the system comprising:

a communication network; and

an aggregation module,

wherein the communication network comprises;

a network-connected raw database, a network-connected device profiles database, a unique identifier and a location module;

and wherein the aggregation module derives from the communication network combined data exhibiting identified network-connected devices derived from the unique identifier with their corresponding profiles from the network-connected device profiles database, and aggregates in response, a particular profile for each identified network-connected device with the corresponding location code derived from the location module, thereby creating an anonymous aggregated user related data exhibiting profile and corresponding location.

2. The data processing system according to claim 1, further comprising a combining module, and wherein the combining module combines the aggregated user related data from the aggregation module with corresponding geographical coordinates received from the location module.

3. The data processing system according to claim 2, further comprising an interpolating module and wherein the interpolating module spatially interpolates the combined aggregated user related data.

4. The data processing system according to claim 3, further comprising a calibrating module, and wherein the calibrating module calibrates the interpolated data with exogamic statistical data.

5. The data processing system according to claim 4, wherein the data processing system creates tempo-spatial related network-connected devices masses pattern representations using spatial and temporal geo-statistics techniques.

6. A method of extracting user-related tempo-spatial data from a communication network comprising a plurality of cells, each cell comprising at least one cell sector, wherein each cell sector is in communication with a plurality of network-connected devices, and wherein each device is associated with a user profile, the method comprising:

identifying network-connected devices which are both active and idle in each cell sector;

combining the identified active network-connected devices with corresponding user profile characteristics; and

aggregating the combined data according to network-connected devices geographic location, thereby creating anonymous aggregated profiles classes associated with geographical locations.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising periodically repeating the aggregating of the combined data thereby creating tempo-spatial data stamps, each exhibiting anonymous aggregated profiles classes associated with geographical locations;

8. The method according to claim 7, further comprising estimating global phenomena in accordance with the tempo-spatial data stamps, in view of the network-connected devices ratios.

9. The method according to claim 6, further comprising creating, using geo-statistical methods a geographic information system (GIS) layer presenting the anonymous aggregated profiles classes associated with geographical locations.

10. A computer program product, comprising a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, the computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method of extracting users related tempo-spatial data from a cellular network comprising a plurality of cells, each cell comprising at least one cell sector, wherein each cell sector is in communication with a plurality of network-connected devices, and wherein each device is associated with a user profile, the method comprising:

identifying all network-connected devices which are both active and idle in each cell sector;

combining the identified active network-connected devices with corresponding user profile characteristics; and

aggregating the combined data according to network-connected devices geographic location, thereby creating anonymous aggregated profiles classes associated with geographical locations.

11. The computer program product according to claim 10, wherein the method further comprising periodically repeating the aggregating of the combined data thereby creating tempo-spatial data stamps, each exhibiting anonymous aggregated profiles classes associated with geographical locations.

12. The computer program product according to claim 11, wherein the method further comprising estimating global phenomena in accordance with the tempo-spatial data stamps, in view of the network-connected devices ratios.

13. The computer program product according to claim 12, wherein the method further comprising creating, using geo-statistical methods a geographic information system (GIS) layer presenting the anonymous aggregated profiles classes associated with geographical locations.