Method for the determination of a time, location, and quantity of goods to be made available based on mapped population activity

• US 8,676,668 B2
• Filed: 08/12/2009
• Issued: 03/18/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/12/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Gridley IP LLC (IP Edge LLC)
• Original Assignee: Empire Technology Development LLC (Allied Inventors Management, LLC)
• Inventors: Wolfe, Andrew
• Primary Examiner(s): ALLEN, WILLIAM J
• Application Number:
  US12/540,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20110040603A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,679 Days
• Field of Search: 705/7.29, 705/7.31, 705/14.4, 705/14.49, 705 1457- 1458, 705 261- 272, 701/400, 701/408, 701/426, 701/465, 701/487, 701/491, 701/500, 701/516, 701/517, 701/526
• US Class Current: 705/26.7
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0202 Market predictions or forecasting for commercial activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0619 Neutral agent
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants

Abstract

A population activity mapping method may include detecting a plurality of wireless mobile devices within a geographic region. Individual wireless mobile devices may include a processor, a user interface, a transmitter and a receiver. The detecting operation may be performed by use of a wireless access point, a GPS satellite, and/or a base station, and may be performed at at least two different points in time. Input data may be provided based upon the detecting operation. A distance and speed at which the mobile devices travel within the geographic region may be discerned dependent upon the input data. The discerning operation is performed by at least one processor of a computer network. A time and/or location at which salable output is to be made available and/or an amount of salable output to be made available may be determined dependent upon the discerning operation.

Claims

1. A method for mapping population activity, the method comprising:

detecting wireless mobile devices within a geographic region at two or more different points in time;

discerning a location, speed and direction of the wireless mobile devices within the geographic region to discern a particular location toward which the wireless mobile devices are moving;

determining, based upon the location, speed, direction and the particular location toward which the wireless mobile devices are moving;

a time at which goods or services are to be made available;

a location at which the goods or services are to be made available; and

a quantity of the goods or services to be made available, the determining being performed by one or more processors of a computer network; and

presenting a result of the determining on a user interface of the computer network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein individual wireless mobile devices include a processor, a transmitter, and a receiver;

and wherein the detecting is performed by use of one or more of a wireless access point, a GPS satellite, and/or a base station.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the discerning is performed by either at least one of the one or more processors of the computer network, or the processor of at least one of the individual wireless mobile devices.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising collecting demographic information associated with at least some of the wireless mobile devices, wherein the determining is at least partially dependent upon the demographic information.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising retrieving historical information from a memory device, wherein the determining is at least partially dependent upon the historical information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining is at least partially dependent upon one or more of a present time-of-day, a present day-of-the-week, and/or a present calendar date.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining is at least partially dependent upon a change over time in a number of the wireless mobile devices that are detected.