SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING MOBILE USER CLASSFICATION INFORMATION FOR A TARGET GEOGRAPHICAL AREA

• US 20110201351A1
• Filed: 02/15/2011
• Published: 08/18/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/15/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Unwired Planet LLC (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: Openwave Systems Incorporated (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: Chen, Yixiang
• Application Number:
  US13/027,686
• Publication Number:
  US 20110201351A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A system and method for providing mobile user classification information for a target geographical area uses location information of mobile communication devices to detect the mobile communication devices within the target geographical area at a specified time and then further uses at least one of the location information of the detected mobile communication devices and Internet session information of the detected mobile communication devices to produce the mobile user classification information of the mobile communication devices within the target geographical area that are classified in one or more classifications.

Claims

1. A system for providing mobile user classification information for a target geographical area, the system comprising:

a location storage module configured to receive and store location information of mobile communication devices associated with a mobile network;

an Internet session storage module configured to receive and store Internet session information of at least some of the mobile communication devices that have accessed the Internet via the mobile network; and

a data processing engine configured to select the mobile communication devices that were within the target geographical area at a particular time using the location information stored in the location storage module in response to a request for the mobile user classification information for one or more classifications, the target geographical area and the particular time, the data processing engine being further configured to produce the mobile user classification information of the selected mobile communication devices that are classified in the one or more classifications, the one or more classifications being dependent on at least one of the location information of the selected mobile communication devices stored in the location storage module and the Internet session information of the selected mobile communication devices stored in the Internet session storage module.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the data processing engine is configured to produce a count of the mobile communication devices that are classified in a particular classification of the one or more classifications.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the data processing engine is configured to provide the count of the mobile user classification information without providing any identity information of the mobile communication devices.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising an analytics engine configured to classify the mobile communication devices into detected classifications based on the location information stored in the location storage module and the Internet session information stored in the Internet session storage module.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the analytics engine is configured to apply one or more data mining techniques to classify some of the mobile communication devices to known classifications or a new classification detected using the one or more data mining techniques.

6. The system of claim 4, wherein the analytics engine is configured to retrieve customer records of the mobile communication devices for classification consideration.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the location storage module is configured to receive the location information of the mobile communication devices from the mobile network.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the location storage module is configured to receive a location update message from the mobile network.

9. The system of claim 1, further including an Internet proxy that monitors data traffic between the mobile communication devices and the Internet to provide the Internet session information to the Internet session storage module.

20. The system of claim 1, wherein the geo-fence engine is configured to provide a count of the mobile communication devices that are classified in a particular classification of the one or more classifications.

10. A method for providing mobile user classification information for a target geographical area, the method comprising:

receiving location information of mobile communication devices associated with a mobile network;

storing the location information in a first storage device;

receiving Internet session information of at least some of the mobile communication devices that have accessed the Internet via the mobile network;

storing the Internet session information in a second storage device;

selecting the mobile communication devices that were within the target geographical area at a particular time using the location information stored in the first storage device in response to a request for the mobile user classification information for one or more classifications, the target geographical area and the particular time; and

producing the mobile user classification information of the selected mobile communication devices that are classified in the one or more classifications, the one or more classifications being dependent on at least one of the location information of the selected mobile communication devices and the Internet session information of the selected mobile communication devices.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the producing includes producing a count of the mobile communication devices that are classified in a particular classification of the one or more classifications.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the producing includes providing the count of the mobile user classification information without providing any identity information of the mobile communication devices.

13. The method of claim 10, further comprising classifying the mobile communication devices into detected classifications based on the location information stored in the first storage device and the Internet session information stored in the second storage device.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the classifying includes applying one or more data mining techniques to classify some of the mobile communication devices to known classifications or a new classification detected using the one or more data mining techniques.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the classifying includes retrieving customer records of the mobile communication devices for classification consideration.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the receiving the location information includes receiving the location information of the mobile communication devices from the mobile network.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the receiving the location information includes receiving a location update message from the mobile network.

18. The method of claim 10, wherein the receiving the Internet session information includes monitoring data traffic between the mobile communication devices and the Internet using an Internet proxy to provide the Internet session information to the second storage device.

19. A system for providing mobile user classification information for a target geographical area, the system comprising:

a location storage module configured to receive and store location information of mobile communication devices associated with a mobile network;

an Internet session storage module configured to receive and store Internet session information of at least some of the mobile communication devices that have accessed the Internet via the mobile network;

an analytics engine configured to classify the mobile communication devices into detected classifications based on the location information stored in the location storage module and the Internet session information stored in the Internet session storage module; and

a geo-fence engine configured to select the mobile communication devices that were within the target geographical area at a particular time using the location information stored in the location storage module in response to a request for the mobile user classification information for one or more classifications, the target geographical area and the particular time, the geo-fence engine being further configured to produce the mobile user classification information of the selected mobile communication devices that are classified in the one or more classifications, the one or more classifications being dependent on at least one of the location information of the selected mobile communication devices stored in the location storage module and the Internet session information of the selected mobile communication devices stored in the Internet session storage module.