SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING MOBILE TELEPHONE USERS LOCATIONS AND CLASSIFICATIONS, WHILE MAINTAINING USERS PRIVACY CONSTRAINTS

• US 20150038164A1
• Filed: 07/22/2014
• Published: 02/05/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/01/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: ELOVICI, Yuval, MIMRAN, Dudu, CHIZI, Barak, ACKERMAN, Pavel, BIXENSPANER, Moshe
• Application Number:
  US14/337,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20150038164A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6254 by anonymising data, e.g. decorrelating personal data from the owner's identification
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/30 Security of mobile devices; Security of mobile applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A system provides a database ready for querying and analyzing locations of mobile phone users. The database is secured from possibility of breaching a privacy of a single user, has: (a) a signal tracker; (b) an aggregator-classifier and a step aggregator; (c) a timer; (d) a sector gate keeper and a step gate keeper for inspecting each aggregated registration record and each aggregated step record, and for forwarding to a sector gate keeper and to a step gate keeper respectively only those aggregated registration records and aggregated step records that evolve from at least a predefined number N of different users; (e) a sector writer and a step writer for receiving aggregated registration records, and aggregated step records, each evolving from at least a predefined number N of different users, and for writing all said records within a database.

Claims

1. A system for providing a database ready for querying and analyzing locations of mobile phone users, said database being secured from possibility of breaching a privacy of a single user, which comprises:

a. a signal tracker for receiving a flow of real-time network registrations of plurality of mobile phones, for comparing each registration with a corresponding previous registration for a same mobile phone, and for forwarding any present registration and the result of said comparison to an aggregator-classifier and a step aggregator respectively;

b. an aggregator-classifier and a step aggregator for receiving each of said registration and comparison results respectively, for consulting with a CRM with respect to each registration, and based on said consultation aggregating registration records and step records according to their classifications;

c. a timer for periodically, every period T, forwarding the aggregated registration records and the aggregated step records, as aggregated within said aggregator-classifier and within said step aggregator respectively to a sector gate keeper and to a step gate keeper respectively;

d. a sector gate keeper and a step gate keeper for inspecting each aggregated registration record and each aggregated step record, and for forwarding to a sector gate keeper and to a step gate keeper respectively only those aggregated registration records and aggregated step records that evolve from at least a predefined number N of different users;

e. a sector writer and a step writer for receiving aggregated registration records, and aggregated step records, each evolving from at least a predefined number N of different users, and for writing all said records within a database.

2. System according to claim 1, wherein all those aggregated step and registration records that are found by said gate keepers to evolve from less than N different users, are merged with proximate records within the aggregator-classifier and within the step aggregator respectively to form enlarged respective records that each evolve from more than N users, all those that enlarged records that are found by said gate keepers to evolve from more than N users are also forwarded as such to the sector gate keeper and to the step gate keeper respectively.

3. System according to claim 1, which further comprises an analyzer, for querying and performing statistical analysis within said database.

4. System according to claim 3, wherein said analyzer comprises:

a. a sector extractor and a step extractor for receiving and conveying a query to the database;

b. a coverage extractor for receiving a result of said query, and for limiting a coverage range of the result to a specific range; and

c. a shape extractor for forming a final result of the query.