BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT POPULARITY BASED ON PERSON LOCATION TRACKING

• US 20100093373A1
• Filed: 10/14/2008
• Published: 04/15/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/14/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: INKI, Jarkko, OLSSON, Stefan, KATZ, Darius, WIHLBORG, Anders
• Application Number:
  US12/250,604
• Publication Number:
  US 20100093373A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/00 Commerce

Abstract

A system receives information associated with locations of multiple people, where the information is derived based on each of the multiple people'"'"'s use of an electronic device. The system cross-references the locations of the multiple people to locations of one or more places where people get together to determine a number of the multiple people who are located at the one or more places. The system further provides a visual representation of a popularity of each of the one or more places to a user device based on the determined number of the multiple people who are located at the one or more places.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:

receiving information associated with locations of a plurality of people, where the information is derived based on each of the plurality of people'"'"'s use of an electronic device;

cross-referencing the locations of the plurality of people to locations of one or more places where people get together to determine a number of the plurality of people who are located at the one or more places; and

providing data for use in generating a visual representation of a popularity of each of the one or more places to a user device based on the determined number of the plurality of people who are located at the one or more places.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, where the information associated with the locations of the plurality of people comprises Global Positioning System (GPS) data.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, where the electronic device comprises a cellular radiotelephone.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, where the information associated with the locations of the plurality of people comprises geo-location data derived from cellular network triangulation techniques.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, where the locations of the plurality of people comprise current locations of the plurality of people.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, where the one or more places comprise one or more of restaurants, casinos, theaters, bars, nightclubs, theme parks, public parks, or shopping stores.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, where the user device comprises a computer or a cellular radiotelephone.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

sorting the one or more places based on the popularity of each of the one or more places to generate a sorted list,

where providing the data comprises providing the sorted list to the user device.

6. The computer-implemented method 1, where the locations of the plurality of people comprise past locations of the plurality of people.

10. A system, comprising:

a network interface configured to receive geo-location data associated with electronic devices carried by a plurality of people;

a processor configured to;

locate each of the plurality of people at one or more business establishments based on the received geo-location data, and

provide information for a representation that graphically depicts a number of the plurality of people at each of the one or more business establishments.

11. The system of claim 10, where the processor is further configured to store the locations of each of the plurality of people at the one or more business establishments in a database.

12. The system of claim 10, further comprising:

a database that stores geo-locations associated with the one or more business establishments, and

where the processor is further configured to;

cross-reference the received geo-location data to the stored geo-locations associated with the one or more business establishments to locate each of the plurality of people at the one or more business establishments.

13. The system of claim 10, where the network interface is further configured to transmit the representation to a user device via a network.

14. The system of claim 10, where the processor is further configured to:

determine a popularity of each of the one or more business establishments based on the location of the plurality of people at the one or more business establishments,

where the representation indicates a popularity of the one or more business establishments.

15. The system of claim 10, where the geo-location data comprises Global Positioning System (GPS) data.

16. The system of claim 10, where the network interface is further configured to transmit the information for the representation to a user device via a network.

17. A computer-readable medium containing instructions executable by at least one processor, the computer-readable medium comprising:

one or more instructions for receiving geo-location data associated with first electronic devices carried by a plurality of people;

one or more instructions for locating each of the plurality of people at multiple different business establishments based on the received geo-location data,

one or more instructions for sorting the multiple business establishments among one another based on a number of the plurality of people determined to be located at each of the business establishments of the multiple business establishments; and

one or more instructions for providing the sorted multiple business establishments as a list that indicates a relative popularity of each of the business establishments of the multiple business establishments.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, further comprising:

one or more instructions for providing the list to second electronic devices.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, where the geo-location data comprises Global Positioning System (GPS) geo-location data.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 17, where the geo-location data is derived from cellular network triangulation techniques.