COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, INFORMATION ANALYZING APPARATUS, AND INFORMATION ANALYZING METHOD

• US 20120094686A1
• Filed: 03/29/2010
• Published: 04/19/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Suzuki, Toshihiro, Okajima, Ichiro, Kawakami, Hiroshi, Jo, Manhee, Ochi, Daisuke, Nagata, Tomohiro, Kobayashi, Motonari, Oyabu, Yuki
• Application Number:
  US13/257,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20120094686A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/0104 Measuring and analyzing of parameters relative to traffic conditions

Abstract

For easily and quickly collecting data regarding macroscopic population fluidity, and easily and quickly obtaining the survey results, an RNC includes: a positioning module that measures the position of a mobile station; and an RNC communication controller that transmits location information of the mobile station that the positioning module measures, identification information of the mobile station, and time information when the positioning module measures the position of the mobile station, to an information analyzing apparatus, and the information analyzing apparatus includes: a location extractor that extracts movement information indicating a moving situation of the mobile station at a given time and including information corresponding to at least the location information based on the location information, the identification information and the time information; and an output module that calculates total movement information by integrating the movement information and outputs the total movement information thus calculated.

Claims

1. A communication system configured to comprise:

a mobile station that is located in a sector that a base transceiver station controls;

a radio network controller that controls the base transceiver station; and

an information analyzing apparatus that is communicably connected with the radio network controller,

wherein the radio network controller comprises;

a positioning module that measures a position of the mobile station; and

a transmitter that transmits location information as information regarding the position of the mobile station that the positioning module measures, identification information as an identifier that makes the mobile station uniquely identifiable, time information as information regarding a time when the positioning module measures the position of the mobile station, and information on a location information acquisition trigger event for the positioning module to measure the position of the mobile station, to the information analyzing apparatus,

wherein the information analyzing apparatus comprises;

a location extractor that extracts movement information indicating a moving situation of the mobile station at a given time and including information corresponding to at least the location information, based on the location information, the identification information and the time information; and

an output module that calculates total movement information by integrating the movement information and outputs the total movement information thus calculated, based on the information on the location information acquisition trigger event.

2. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the positioning module measures the position of the mobile station using, as a trigger event, at least any one of

when the mobile station transmits,

when the mobile station receives a transmission,

when the mobile station moves across a boundary of location registration areas which are areas formed by the base transceiver station and are unit areas in which the mobile station registers a position thereof with the radio network controller, and

when a given timing in a given period arrives.

3. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the information analyzing apparatus further comprises an association module that converts an expression form of the movement information extracted by the location extractor into an expression form for giving expression as a movement from one area unit to another area unit in association with an area unit having a certain range of spread.

4. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the information analyzing apparatus further comprises:

an attribute information storage module that stores attribute information representing attributes of a user using the communication system in association with the identification information therein; and

an attribute determination module that determines whether or not to use the movement information so as to integrate the movement information and output the total movement information thus integrated, based on the attribute information stored by the attribute information storage module.

5. The communication system according to claim 1,

wherein the given time has a time range, and the time range is optionally settable.

6. The communication system according to claim 5,

wherein the location extractor, with respect to the movement information at the given time having the time range, extracts movement information for each of a plurality of time zones that are obtained by dividing the time range in plurality, and

the output module integrates the movement information for each of the plurality of time zones to calculate total movement information for each time zone, and integrates the total movement information for each time zone to calculate total movement information at the given time having the time range.

7. The communication system according to claim 6,

wherein the output module outputs the total movement information at the given time having the time range.

8. An information analyzing apparatus communicably connected with a radio network controller that controls a base transceiver station controlling a sector in which a mobile station is located, the information analyzing apparatus comprising:

a receiver that receives location information as information regarding a position of the mobile station that the radio network controller measures, identification information as an identifier that makes the mobile station uniquely identifiable, time information as information regarding a time when the radio network controller measures the position of the mobile station, and information on a location information acquisition trigger event for the radio network controller to measure the position of the mobile station;

a location extractor that extracts movement information indicating a moving situation of the mobile station at a given time and including information at least corresponding to the location information based on the location information, the identification information and the time information that the receiver receives; and

an output module that calculates total movement information by integrating the movement information and outputs the total movement information thus calculated, based on the information on the location information acquisition trigger event.

9. An information analyzing method executed in a communication system constituted to comprise:

a mobile station that is located in a sector that a base transceiver station controls;

a radio network controller that controls the base transceiver station; and

an information analyzing apparatus that is communicably connected with the radio network controller, the information analyzing method comprising;

a positioning step in which the radio network controller measures a position of the mobile station;

a transmitting step in which the radio network controller transmits location information as information regarding the position of the mobile station that is measured at the positioning step, identification information as an identifier that makes the mobile station uniquely identifiable, time information as information regarding a time when the position of the mobile station is measured at the positioning step, and information on a location information acquisition trigger event to measure the position of the mobile station in the positioning step, to the information analyzing apparatus;

a location extracting step in which the information analyzing apparatus extracts movement information indicating a moving situation of the mobile station at a given time and including information at least corresponding to the location information based on the location information, the identification information and the time information; and

an outputting step in which the information analyzing apparatus calculates total movement information by integrating the movement information and outputs the total movement information thus calculated, based on the information on the location information acquisition trigger event.