System and method for determining audience characteristics of a music concert based on mobile phone tracking and mobile data transmissions

• US 9,326,099 B2
• Filed: 01/09/2013
• Issued: 04/26/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/11/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Popular Metrics, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Popular Metrics, Inc.
• Inventors: Elmore, John, Freeman, Duncan
• Primary Examiner(s): Karikari, Kwasi
• Application Number:
  US13/694,804
• Publication Number:
  US 20150148071A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,203 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.2
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0205 Location or geographical consideration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds

Abstract

A concert profiling server (CPS) obtains and analyzes information about a venue hosting a music concert and mobile phone location information related to the audience members attending the concert. Based on this information, the CPS determines the size of the audience in attendance. The CPS also obtains and analyzes sentiment information related to audience members at the concert with which the CPS determines the audience'"'"'s sentiment toward the concert as favorable or unfavorable. The CPS further obtains and analyzes other information with which it makes a profile of the demographics of the audience and the audience members'"'"' levels of engagement.

Claims

1. A system for determining characteristics of an audience at a concert, comprising:

a location information server for providing location information about a plurality of active mobile phones;

a venue information server for providing information about a venue;

a concert profiling server, comprising a processor configured to execute computer instructions to;

obtain information from the location information server related to a plurality of active mobile phones at a geographical location during a time period in response to a request, the request including one or more identifiers of the geographical location and the time period;

obtain information from the venue information server related to a venue hosting the concert during a time period in response to a request, the request including one or more identifiers of the venue and the time period; and

determine one or more characteristics about the audience based on at least one of the location information and the venue information; and

a popularity profiling server, wherein the processor of the concert profiling server is further configured to execute computer instructions to obtain from the popularity profiling server sentiment information relating to the audience in response to a request, the request including one or more identifiers of the concert;

wherein the location information server, the venue information server and the concert profiling server communicate over a network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more identifiers of the geographical location comprise at least one of a set of latitude and longitude coordinate pairs, a street address, and a place name.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more identifiers of the venue comprise at least one of a set of latitude and longitude coordinate pairs, a street address, and a place name.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more characteristics of an audience includes a maximum size of the audience during the time period.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more characteristics of an audience includes an average size of the audience during the time period.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more identifiers of the concert include a time period and at least one of a concert name, one or more identifiers of a venue, and a music artist name.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor of the concert profiling server is further configured to execute computer instructions to aggregate the sentiment information and classify the aggregated sentiment information as either favorable or unfavorable with respect to the concert.

8. The system of claim 1, the system further comprising:

a means for receiving, by the concert profiling server, engagement information about a plurality of concert audience members;

a means to segment, by the concert profiling server, the plurality of concert audience members based on their level of engagement; and

a means to determine, by the concert profiling server, a social influence level of each of the plurality of concert audience members.

9. The system of claim 1, the system further comprising:

a means for determining, by the concert profiling server, demographic information about a plurality of concert audience members.

10. A method for determining characteristics of an audience at a concert, comprising:

obtaining, by a concert profiling server, location information about a plurality of active mobile phones from a location information server in response to a request, the request including one or more identifiers of a geographical location and a time period;

obtaining, by the concert profiling server, information related to a venue hosting the concert in response to a request from a venue information server, the request including one or more identifiers of the venue and a time period;

obtaining, by the concert profiling server, sentiment information relating to the audience from a popularity profiling server in response to a request, the request including one or more identifiers of the concert; and

determining one or more characteristics about the audience based on at least one of the location information and the venue information;

wherein the location information server, the venue information server and the concert profiling server communicate over a network.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more identifiers of the geographical location comprise at least one of a set of latitude and longitude coordinate pairs, a street address, and a place name.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more identifiers of the venue comprise at least one of a set of latitude and longitude coordinate pairs, a street address, and a place name.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more characteristics of an audience includes a maximum size of the audience during the time period.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more characteristics of an audience includes an average size of an audience during the time period.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more identifiers of the concert include a time period and at least one of a concert name, one or more identifiers of a venue, and a music artist name.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein method further comprises:

aggregating the sentiment information and classifying, by the concert profiling server, the aggregated sentiment information as either favorable or unfavorable with respect to the concert.