APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR EVENT DETECTION

• US 20100273463A1
• Filed: 11/06/2008
• Published: 10/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/20/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Mercer, Kevin, Bouzid, Makram, Bonnefoy, David, Lhuillier, Nicolas
• Granted Patent: US 8,396,467 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems

Abstract

An event detection apparatus for a cellular communication system comprises a video upload processor (203) which receives video upload activity indications. Each video upload activity indication comprises an indication of a video upload from a remote station of the cellular communication system as well as a remote station location indication for the remote station from which a video clip is uploaded. An event processor (205) generates an event indication in response to the video upload activity indications meeting a criterion where the event indication comprises an event location indication generated in response to the remote station location indications. The event detection criterion may specifically be that more than a given number of video upload activity indications are indicative of video uploads within a given time interval and geographic area. The invention may allow improved event detection.

Claims

1. An event detection apparatus for a cellular communication system supporting a plurality of remote stations, the apparatus comprising:

means for receiving video upload activity indications, each video upload activity indication comprising an indication of a video upload from a remote station of the cellular communication system and a remote station location indication for the remote station; and

generating means for generating an event indication in response to the video upload activity indications meeting a criterion, the event indication comprising an event location indication generated in response to the remote station location indications.

2. The event detection apparatus of claim 1 wherein the criterion comprises a first requirement that a given number of video upload activity indications meet a first qualifying criterion.

3. The event detection apparatus of claim 2 wherein the first qualifying criterion comprises a requirement that the video upload communication is addressed to a given destination.

4. The event detection apparatus of claim 3 wherein the given destination is a destination address for a video sharing application.

5. The event detection apparatus of claim 3 wherein the given destination is an Internet address.

6. The event detection apparatus of claim 1 further comprising means for determining the criterion in response to a previous traffic condition for the cellular communication system.

7. The event detection apparatus of claim 1 further comprising means for determining a current video upload activity level for a geographic area in response to the video upload activity indications;

and wherein the criterion comprises a requirement that the current video upload activity level exceeds a threshold.

8. The event detection apparatus of claim 7 further comprising means for determining the threshold in response to a previous video upload activity level for the geographic area.

9. The event detection apparatus of claim 7 further comprising means for determining the geographic area in response to remote station location indications of the video upload activity indications.

10. A method of event detection for a cellular communication system supporting a plurality of remote stations, the method comprising:

receiving video upload activity indications, each video upload activity indication comprising an indication of a video upload from a remote station of the cellular communication system and a remote station location indication for the remote station; and

generating an event indication in response to the video upload activity indications meeting a criterion, the event indication comprising an event location indication generated in response to the remote station location indications.