Analytics caching based on users connected

• US 9,420,056 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2013
• Issued: 08/16/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Ellis, Richard R., Jackson, Callum P., Leming, Matthew W., Pirie, Geoffrey S.
• Primary Examiner(s): Pollack, Melvin H
• Application Number:
  US13/927,175
• Publication Number:
  US 20150006706A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,147 Days
• Field of Search: 709/224
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/568 Storing data temporarily at an intermediate stage, e.g. caching

Abstract

Data is cached at a mobile communication site, such as a cell phone mast or tower computer. The caching is based on collection of “live data,” such as the number of communication devices (for example, cell phones) connected in data communication directly to the site, information known about users of the various communication devices connected directly to the site, etc. By caching data that is likely to be useful to the users before it is actually requested, the information can be supplied from the site to the directly connected users more quickly when it is later requested.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

collecting collected data from a plurality of mobile devices related to a respective current status of the plurality of mobile devices;

mining, by an analytics engine, a historical data store using operator services in order to find a first pattern in the collected data;

determining, by the analytics engine, based on historical data and the first pattern, predicted data that is likely to be requested in the future by the plurality of mobile devices over a communication path including a wireless communications tower that includes a wireless communications tower computer; and

caching the predicted data in a cache at the wireless communications tower computer;

subsequent to caching of the predicted data, receiving a request from a user'"'"'s device; and

responsive to the request, delivering, from the cache, through a wireless communications network and to the user'"'"'s device, the predicted data.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the wireless communications tower is a mobile phone mast computer.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the collected data includes data of at least one of the following types:

(i) connection information;

(ii) location information;

(iii) identity information;

(iv) communication information; and

(v) files information.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the collected data consists of connection information.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the first pattern is indicative of a plurality of people attending an event in such proximity to the wireless communications tower that wireless communications initiated by the plurality of people through their mobile devices are likely to have a communication path including the wireless communications tower.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the historical data includes connection information.

7. A computer program product comprising:

a non-transitory storage device; and

machine readable data stored on the non-transitory storage device;

wherein the machine readable data comprises;

first program instructions programmed to collect collected data from a plurality of mobile devices related to a respective current status of the plurality of mobile devices,

second program instructions programmed to mine, by an analytics engine, a historical data store using operator services in order to find a first pattern in the collected data,

third program instructions programmed to determine, by the analytics engine, based on historical data and the first pattern, predicted data that is likely to be requested in the future by the plurality of mobile devices over a communication path including a wireless communications tower that includes a wireless communications tower computer;

fourth program instructions programmed to cache the predicted data in a cache at the wireless communications tower computer;

fifth program instructions programmed to, subsequent to caching of the predicted data, receive a request from a user'"'"'s device; and

sixth program instructions programmed to, responsive to the request, deliver, from the cache, through a wireless communications network and to the user'"'"'s device, the predicted data.

8. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the wireless communications tower is a mobile phone mast computer.

9. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the collected data includes data of at least one of the following types:

(i) connection information;

(ii) location information;

(iii) identity information;

(iv) communication information; and

(v) files information.

10. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the collected data consists of connection information.

11. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the first pattern is indicative of a plurality of people attending an event in such proximity to the wireless communications tower that wireless communications initiated by the plurality of people through their mobile devices are likely to have a communication path including the wireless communications tower.

12. The computer program product of claim 7 wherein the historical data includes connection information.

13. A wireless communications tower computer system for controlling operations of a wireless communications tower, the system comprising:

a set of processor(s);

a non-transitory storage device; and

machine readable data stored on the non-transitory storage device;

wherein;

the set of processor(s) is operatively connected to the non-transitory storage device so that the set of processor(s) executes program instructions stored on the non-transitory storage device; and

the machine readable data comprises;

first program instructions programmed to collect collected data from a plurality of mobile devices related to a respective current status of the plurality of mobile devices,

second program instructions programmed to mine, by an analytics engine, a historical data store using operator services in order to find a first pattern in the collected data,

third program instructions programmed to determine, by the analytics engine, based on historical data and the first pattern, predicted data that is likely to be requested in the future by the plurality of mobile devices over a communication path including a wireless communications tower that includes a wireless communications tower computer;

fourth program instructions programmed to cache the predicted data in a cache at the wireless communications tower computer;

fifth program instructions programmed to, subsequent to caching of the predicted data, receive a request from a user'"'"'s device; and

sixth program instructions programmed to, responsive to the request, deliver, from the cache, through a wireless communications network and to the user'"'"'s device, the predicted data.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the wireless communications tower is a mobile phone mast computer.

15. The system of claim 13 wherein the collected data includes data of at least one of the following types:

(i) connection information;

(ii) location information;

(iii) identity information;

(iv) communication information; and

(v) files information.

16. The system of claim 13 wherein the collected data consists of connection information.

17. The system of claim 13 wherein the first pattern is indicative of a plurality of people attending an event in such proximity to the wireless communications tower that wireless communications initiated by the plurality of people through their mobile devices are likely to have a communication path including the wireless communications tower.

18. The system of claim 13 wherein the historical data includes connection information.