System and method for population tracking, counting, and movement estimation using mobile operational data and/or geographic information in mobile network
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1. A method comprising:
- receiving mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, the mobile phone operational data comprising location area update messages and periodic registration messages;
filtering the mobile phone operational data based on time and area to select a portion of user equipment location information to produce filtered mobile phone operation data;
performing travel estimation based on the filtered mobile phone operation data, including performing interpolation on data associated with one or more individuals in a population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more individuals for a specified time period using a shortest path estimation algorithm that determines a shortest path between pairs of points based on weights to estimate a complete trajectory for each of the one or more individuals based on the mobile phone operational data; and
counting a number of individuals in the population at a given time and at a given area.
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Abstract
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed herein for population tracking, counting and/or movement estimation. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, where the event data includes location area update messages and periodic registration messages; and performing travel estimation based on the mobile phone operation data, including performing interpolation on data associated with one or more individuals in a population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more individuals for a specified time period based on a shortest path mesh sequence estimation algorithm.
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1. A method comprising:
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receiving mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, the mobile phone operational data comprising location area update messages and periodic registration messages; filtering the mobile phone operational data based on time and area to select a portion of user equipment location information to produce filtered mobile phone operation data; performing travel estimation based on the filtered mobile phone operation data, including performing interpolation on data associated with one or more individuals in a population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more individuals for a specified time period using a shortest path estimation algorithm that determines a shortest path between pairs of points based on weights to estimate a complete trajectory for each of the one or more individuals based on the mobile phone operational data; and counting a number of individuals in the population at a given time and at a given area. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An apparatus comprising:
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a memory to store instructions; a processor coupled to the memory to execute instructions from the memory, wherein in response to executing the instructions, the processor receives mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, where the mobile phone operational data includes location area update messages and periodic registration messages, and further wherein the processor; filters mobile phone operational data based on time and area to select a portion of user equipment location information to produce filtered mobile phone operation data; performs travel estimation based on the filtered mobile phone operation data, including performing interpolation on data associated with one or more individuals in a population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more individuals for a specified time period using a shortest path estimation algorithm that determines a shortest path between pairs of points based on weights to estimate a complete trajectory for each of the one or more individuals based on the mobile phone operational data; and counts a number of individuals in the population at a given time and at a given area. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. An article of manufacture having one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media storing executable instructions thereon which when executed cause a system to perform a method for estimating travel behavior in a mobile network, the method comprising:
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receiving mobile phone operational data indicative of user equipment location, the event data comprising location area update messages and periodic registration messages; filtering the mobile phone operational data based on time and area to select a portion of user equipment location information to produce filtered mobile phone operation data; performing travel estimation based on the filtered mobile phone operation data, including performing interpolation on data associated with one or more individuals in a population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more individuals for a specified time period using a shortest path estimation algorithm that determines a shortest path between pairs of points based on weights to estimate a complete trajectory for each of the one or more individuals based on the mobile phone operational data; and counting a number of individuals in the population at a given time and at a given area.
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