System and method of identifying the association relationship between a smart card and a mobile phone

• US 8,571,517 B2
• Filed: 10/27/2011
• Issued: 10/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Zhang, Yi Bo, Zhu, Yan Feng, Ping, Pan
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US13/283,348
• Publication Number:
  US 20120214548A1
• Time in Patent Office: 733 Days
• Field of Search: 455405-406, 455/456.1, 455/456.3, 455/558
• US Class Current: 455/405
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/3224 Transactions dependent on location of M-devices
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 20/34 using cards, e.g. integrated circuit [IC] cards or magnetic cards
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

A method and system for identifying an association between a Smart Card and a mobile device by selecting card-swiping record pairs from a set of card-swiping records of the Smart Card, each including a card-swiping location and a corresponding card-swiping time; calculating overlap degree in time and location dimensions of the card-swiping record pair and the communication behavior record pair of the mobile phone, which is recorded in a mobile network as a communication log; determining that the card-swiping record pair overlaps with the communication behavior record pair of the mobile phone recorded in the communication log if the overlap degree is greater than a predetermined threshold, and determining that the Smart Card is associated with the mobile phone if each card-swiping record pair of the plurality of card-swiping record pairs overlaps with the communication behavior record pair of the mobile phone recorded in the communication log.

Claims

1. A system of identifying the association relationship between a Smart Card and a mobile phone, comprising:

at least one processing device for executing components;

a selecting component configured to select a plurality of card-swiping record pairs from a set of card-swiping records of a Smart Card, wherein each card-swiping record of the plurality of card-swiping record pairs includes a card-swiping location and a corresponding card-swiping time;

a calculating component configured to calculate an overlap degree in time and location dimensions of the card-swiping record pair and a communication behavior record pair of a mobile phone recorded in a communication log of the mobile phone;

a determining component configured to determine that the card-swiping record pair overlaps with the communication behavior record pair of the mobile phone recorded in the communication log if the overlap degree is greater than a predetermined threshold, and to determine that the Smart Card is associated with the mobile phone if each card-swiping record pair of the plurality of card-swiping record pairs overlaps with the communication behavior record pair of the mobile phone recorded in the communication log.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the selecting means is configured to select card-swiping record pairs with different card-swiping dates from the set of card-swiping records of the Smart Card.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the calculating component is configured to:

select from the communication log of the mobile phone a location area update record pair which geographically overlaps with the card-swiping record pair;

calculate an overlap degree in time dimension of the card-swiping record pair and the location area update record pair, as the overlap degree in time and location dimensions of the card-swiping record pair and the communication behavior record pair of the mobile phone recorded in the communication log.

4. The system according to claim 3, wherein the calculating component is configured to calculate the overlap degree F. in time dimension of the card-swiping record pair and the location area update record pair as below:

5. The system according to claim 3, wherein the calculating means is configured to calculate the average matching degree of the estimated moment of each cell in the communication behavior record sequence and the actual moment when the subscriber conducts the communication behavior in each cell as below:

6. The system according to claim 2, wherein the calculating component is configured to:

select from the communication log of the mobile phone a communication behavior record sequence that occurs between two card-swiping moments of the card-swiping record pair;

estimate a moment when the mobile phone passes by each cell in the communication behavior record sequence based on the card-swiping record pair, calculate an average matching degree of the estimated moment and an actual moment when a subscriber conducts the communication behavior in each cell, as the overlap degree in time and location dimensions of the card-swiping record pair and the communication behavior record pair of the mobile phone recorded in the communication log.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein, the Smart Card and the mobile phone are obtained from a set of predetermined candidate matches, and the set of candidate matches includes a plurality of two-tuples, each of the two-tuples denotes a Smart Card and a mobile phone.

8. The system according to claim 7, further comprising a candidate match set generating means, wherein for each Smart Card in a given scope, the candidate match set generating means is configured to compare the card-swiping records of the Smart Card with the communication behavior records of each mobile phone in the given scope;

if the card swipe behavior of the Smart Card and the communication behavior of the mobile phone occur at a same geographic location at a moment, a two-tuple formed by the Smart Card ID and the mobile phone ID is placed in the set of candidate matches.

9. The system according to claim 8, wherein for the Smart Card and the mobile phone in each two-tuple of the set of candidate matches, if the card swipe behavior of the Smart Card and the communication behavior of the mobile phone occur at different geographic locations at a moment, the two-tuple is deleted from the set of candidate matches.