Crowd formation based on wireless context information
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1. A computing device comprising:
- a communication interface communicatively coupled to a network; and
a controller associated with the communication interface and associated with at least one processor, the controller configured to;
obtain, via the network, wireless contexts of a plurality of mobile devices, wherein for each mobile device of at least some of the plurality of mobile devices, the wireless context of the mobile device comprises a wireless Personal Area Network (PAN) context of the mobile device comprising information identifying one or more PAN-enabled devices detected by the mobile device and a quality metric for each of the one or more PAN-enabled devices detected by the mobile device; and
form one or more crowds based on the wireless contexts of the plurality of mobile devices.
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Abstract
Systems and methods are disclosed for forming crowds of users based on wireless contexts of corresponding mobile devices of the users. In general, wireless contexts of mobile devices of a number of users are obtained. For each mobile device, the wireless context of the mobile device includes a wireless Personal Area Network (PAN) context of the mobile device, a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) context of the mobile device, or both. The wireless contexts of the mobile devices of the users are then utilized to form crowds of users. More specifically, in one embodiment, users of mobile devices having sufficiently similar wireless contexts are determined to be in the same crowd of users.
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1. A computing device comprising:
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a communication interface communicatively coupled to a network; and a controller associated with the communication interface and associated with at least one processor, the controller configured to; obtain, via the network, wireless contexts of a plurality of mobile devices, wherein for each mobile device of at least some of the plurality of mobile devices, the wireless context of the mobile device comprises a wireless Personal Area Network (PAN) context of the mobile device comprising information identifying one or more PAN-enabled devices detected by the mobile device and a quality metric for each of the one or more PAN-enabled devices detected by the mobile device; and form one or more crowds based on the wireless contexts of the plurality of mobile devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computing device comprising:
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a communication interface communicatively coupled to a network; and a controller associated with the communication interface and associated with at least one processor, the controller configured to; obtain, via the network, wireless contexts of a plurality of mobile devices, wherein for each mobile device of at least some of the plurality of mobile devices, the wireless context of the mobile device comprises a wireless Local Area Network (LAN) context of the mobile device comprising information identifying one or more wireless LANs detected by the mobile device and a quality metric for each of the one or more wireless LANs detected by the mobile device; and form one or more crowds based on the wireless contexts of the plurality of mobile devices. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28)
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29. A computing device comprising:
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a communication interface communicatively coupled to a network; and a controller associated with the communication interface and associated with at least one processor, the controller configured to; obtain wireless contexts of a plurality of mobile devices; and form one or more crowds based on the wireless contexts of the plurality of mobile devices, wherein forming the one or more crowds comprises; identify a subset of the plurality of mobile devices as a plurality of relevant mobile devices; compute a similarity metric for each pair of relevant mobile devices from the plurality of relevant mobile devices based on the wireless contexts of the plurality of mobile devices; and form the one or more crowds based on the similarity metrics computed for the pairs of relevant mobile devices. - View Dependent Claims (30, 31, 32)
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