Portable telephone information visualizing device for visualizing information relating to portable telephone terminals

• US 8,594,708 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2009
• Issued: 11/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/16/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Nakaji, Kazuhide
• Primary Examiner(s): Arevalo, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US12/935,030
• Publication Number:
  US 20110021214A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,701 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404.2, 455/415, 455418-420, 4554561-4563, 455/456.5, 455/456.6, 455/457, 455518-522
• US Class Current: 455/457
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0686 Additional information in the notification, e.g. enhancement of specific meta-data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0893 Assignment of logical groups to network elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management

Abstract

A portable telephone information visualizing device (server device 1) includes: grouping means (portable telephone terminal grouping unit 11) that, based on at least one item of information from among space, time, speed, information associated with the individual identification number of the portable telephone terminals, and status information indicating the state of the portable telephone terminals, performs grouping of information of each portable telephone terminal belonging to a common carrier of portable telephone terminals (4-1-4-n), and means (portable telephone terminal display data creation unit 12) that creates display data for visualizing the number of constituents of a group that has undergone this grouping, the movement of this group, and the relation between this group and a group other than this group.

Claims

1. A portable telephone information visualizing device comprising:

means that performs grouping of information of each of portable telephone terminals belonging to a common carrier based on at least one item of information from among space, time, speed, information associated with individual identification numbers of said portable telephone terminals, and status information indicating a state of said portable telephone terminals; and

means that creates display data for visualizing a number of constituents of a group that has undergone said grouping, movement of the group, and in-group correlation or inter-group correlation between the group and another group, wherein;

said means that performs grouping, when performing grouping based on said space information, collates information of the latitude and longitude of a closed figure that is designated on an electronic map with at least position information of said portable telephone terminals realized by a GPS (Global Positioning System) and performs grouping of portable telephone terminals that are present in said closed figure; and

the number of said portable telephone terminals of the group that has been subjected to said grouping is returned to the source of the request that designated said closed figure to be displayed inside said closed figure designated on said electronic map or in the vicinity of said closed figure.

2. The portable telephone information visualizing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

said means that performs grouping, when performing grouping based on information that is associated with said individual identification numbers, performs grouping of said portable telephone terminals that are present in said closed figure based upon one or more from among surname, age, or gender that is/are associated with the individual identification numbers of the portable telephone terminals;

the number of said portable telephone terminals of groups that have undergone said grouping is returned to said source of the request to be displayed in said closed figure that is designated on said electronic map or in the vicinity of the closed figure.

3. The portable telephone information visualizing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

said means that performs grouping, when performing grouping based on status information of said portable telephone terminals, performs grouping of said portable telephone terminals that are present in said closed figure according to the status of the portable telephone terminals; and

the number of said portable telephone terminals of the groups that have undergone said grouping is returned to said source of the request to be displayed in said closed figure that is designated on said electronic map or in the vicinity of the closed figure.

4. The portable telephone information visualizing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein not only is said closed figure displayed in a predetermined color, but said groups that flow from said closed figure are also displayed in the same color as the closed figure.

5. The portable telephone information visualizing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein said portable telephone information visualizing device:

sets a second closed figure that contains said closed figure and that is larger than the closed figure;

selects, from among the vectors of said portable telephone terminals that are present in the second closed figure, vectors directed toward said closed figure; and

displays the number of said portable telephone terminals of the selected vectors.

6. A portable telephone information visualizing device comprising:

means that performs grouping of information of each of portable telephone terminals belonging to a common carrier based on at least one item of information from among space, time, speed, information associated with an individual identification numbers of said portable telephone terminals, and status information indicating a state of said portable telephone terminals; and

means that creates display data for visualizing a number of constituents of a group that has undergone said grouping, movement of the group, and in-group correlation or inter-group correlation between the group and another group, wherein;

said means that performs grouping performs grouping of said portable telephone terminals that have passed through a gate that is designated on an electronic map; and

the number of said portable telephone terminals that have passed through said gate within a predetermined time interval is returned to the source of the request that designated said gate to be displayed in the vicinity of said gate exit.

7. The portable telephone information visualizing device as set forth in claim 6, wherein a unidirectional gate whose entrance and exit are clearly defined, a bidirectional gate whose entrance and exit are not distinguished, and a total-circumference gate where counting occurs regardless of the direction of passage, can be designated as said gate.

8. The portable telephone information visualizing device as set forth in claim 6, wherein a gate, at which only the number of portable telephone terminals that enter the gate are counted, can be designated as said gate.

9. A portable telephone information visualizing device comprising:

means that performs grouping of information of each of portable telephone terminals belonging to a common carrier based on at least one item of information from among space, time, speed, information associated with an individual identification numbers of said portable telephone terminals, and status information indicating a state of said portable telephone terminals; and

means that creates display data for visualizing a number of constituents of a group that has undergone said grouping, movement of the group, and in-group correlation or inter-group correlation between the group and another group, wherein said means that performs grouping, when performing grouping based on said speed information, performs grouping of portable telephone terminals for which the direction and size of speed vectors produced at the time of movement of said portable telephone terminals are the same; and

when the number of the portable telephone terminals of a the group that has undergone grouping exceeds a value that is set in advance, causes the group that has undergone to become a new speed vector group, and then displays the speed vector group by any shape, displays the direction of movement of the speed vector group by an arrow, and displays the speed of the speed vector group by a number.

10. The portable telephone information visualizing device as set forth in claim 9, wherein, when said speed vector group gradually separates and the number of portable telephone terminals that make up the speed vector group falls below a value that is set in advance, the figure of the speed vector group is caused to disappear.

11. The portable telephone information visualizing device as set forth in claim 9, wherein said means that performs grouping:

draws a line indicating a predetermined distance that is orthogonal to the track of said speed vector group, performs grouping of portable telephone terminals that are at a shorter distance from said track than said predetermined distance, and displays the number of portable telephone terminals that have undergone grouping in association with the figure of the speed vector group.

12. A portable telephone information visualizing device comprising:

means that performs grouping of information of each of portable telephone terminals belonging to a common carrier based on at least one item of information from among space, time, speed, information associated with an individual identification numbers of said portable telephone terminals, and status information indicating a state of said portable telephone terminals; and

means that creates display data for visualizing a number of constituents of a group that has undergone said grouping, movement of the group, and in-group correlation or inter-group correlation between the group and another group, wherein a function of the interrelation between the number of portable telephone terminals and the number of people of the group that has undergone grouping in said means that performs grouping or a function of the interrelation between the number of said portable telephone terminals and the number of automobiles is established, and the function is used to derive and display an estimated population or an estimated number of vehicles.