Route building engine tuning framework

• US 10,645,531 B1
• Filed: 04/29/2019
• Issued: 05/05/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2019
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Original Assignee: Sprint Communications Company LP (Deutsche Telekom AG)
• Inventors: Burcham, Robert H., Dari, Naseer A., Habiger, Matthew, Pickett, Adam C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Quoc Thai N
• Application Number:
  US16/398,254
• Time in Patent Office: 372 Days
• 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 4/024 Guidance services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

A method of tuning a subscriber travel route building engine. The method comprises presenting a user interface that is configured to receive a location cluster radius parameter input by a tuning application executing on a computer system, configuring the location cluster radius parameter input by the tuning application into a location cluster radius parameter of a route building engine application, causing by the tuning application the route building engine application to execute and determine a count of intersections of routes of mobile communication devices with a point of interest based on the location cluster radius parameter, receiving information about the count of intersections of the routes of mobile communication devices with the POI from the route building engine application by the tuning application, and presenting the information about the count of intersections in the user interface by the tuning application, whereby the route building engine is iteratively tuned.

Claims

1. A wireless communication subscriber travel route building engine tuning framework, comprising:

a processor;

a data store comprising a plurality of location data for each of a plurality of mobile communication devices;

a non-transitory memory;

a route building engine application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor,

analyzes mobile communication device location data accessed from the data store, where the analysis is based on a plurality of cluster radius parameters and each cluster radius parameter is associated with a delimited area, to determine a plurality clusters of locations of each mobile communication device,

for each of a plurality of mobile communication devices, determines a route of the mobile communication device based on the clusters, and

determines a count of intersections of the routes of the plurality of mobile communication devices with a point of interest (POI);

a tuning application stored in the non-transitory memory that, when executed by the processor,

provides a user interface that is configured to receive a cluster radius parameter control input,

configures the received cluster radius parameter control input into the cluster radius parameter of the route building application,

causes the route building application to execute, and

presents in the user interface information about the count of intersections of the routes of the plurality of mobile communication devices with a POI, whereby the route building engine is iteratively tuned by repeatedly executing the route building engine application and the tuning application.

2. The tuning framework of claim 1, wherein the tuning application further presents information about the count of intersections compared to authoritative data.

3. The tuning framework of claim 2, wherein the tuning application reads the authoritative data from a data store of government highway traffic statistics.

4. The tuning framework of claim 2, wherein the tuning application reads the authoritative data from a professional sports team attendance data store.

5. The turning framework of claim 2, wherein the user interface provided by the tuning application is configured to receive a revised cluster radius parameter control input based on the information about the count of intersections compared to authoritative data, and wherein the tuning application when executed by the processor:

configures the revised cluster radius parameter control input into the cluster radius parameter of the route building application,

causes the route building application to execute and determine a count of intersections of routes of mobile communication devices with the POI based at least in part on the revised cluster radius parameter control input, and

presents in the user interface information about the count of intersections of the routes of the plurality of mobile communication devices with the POI determined based on the revised cluster radius parameter control input.

6. The tuning framework of claim 2, wherein the tuning application reads the authoritative data from a data store of toll gate statistics.

7. The tuning framework of claim 1, wherein the user interface provided by the tuning application is configured to receive a data sample frequency control input and to configure the data sample frequency input into a data sample frequency parameter of the route building engine application.

8. The tuning framework of claim 7, wherein the route building engine application determines the count of intersections of routes of mobile communication devices with the POI based at least in part on the location data sampling frequency parameter.

9. The tuning framework of claim 8, wherein the route building engine application selects the mobile communication device location data to be analyzed based at least in part on the location data sampling frequency parameter.

10. The tuning framework of claim 8, wherein the tuning application further presents information about the count of intersections compared to authoritative data.

11. The tuning framework of claim 10, wherein the tuning application reads the authoritative data from one or more of a data store of government highway traffic statistics, a professional sports team attendance data store, or a data store of toll gate statistics.

12. The tuning framework of claim 10, wherein the user interface provided by the tuning application is configured to receive a revised data sample frequency control input based on the information about the count of intersections compared to authoritative data, and wherein the tuning application when executed by the processor:

configures the revised data sample frequency control input into the data sample frequency parameter of the route building application,

causes the route building application to execute and determine a count of intersections of routes of mobile communication devices with the POI based at least in part on the revised data sample frequency control input, and

presents in the user interface information about the count of intersections of the routes of the plurality of mobile communication devices with the POI determined based on the revised data sample frequency control input.

13. The tuning framework of claim 1, wherein the user interface is configured to receive an identification of a delimited area associated with the cluster radius parameter control input and wherein configuring the received cluster radius parameter control input into the cluster radius parameter of the route building application comprises configuring the cluster radius parameter for the delimited area identified by the input.

14. The turning framework of claim 13, wherein the user interface provided by the tuning application is configured to receive a different cluster radius parameter control input for a different delimited area, and wherein the tuning application when executed by the processor:

configures the different cluster radius parameter control input into a cluster radius parameter of the route building application for the different delimited area,

causes the route building application to execute and determine a count of intersections of routes of mobile communication devices with a different POI based at least in part on the different cluster radius parameter control input, and

presents in the user interface information about the count of intersections of the routes of the plurality of mobile communication devices with the different POI determined based on the different cluster radius parameter control input.

15. The tuning framework of claim 14, wherein the tuning application further presents information about the count of intersections of routes of mobile communication devices with the different POI compared to authoritative data.

16. The tuning framework of claim 15, wherein the tuning application reads the authoritative data from one or more of a data store of government highway traffic statistics, a professional sports team attendance data store, or a data store of government highway traffic statistics.

17. The tuning framework of claim 1, wherein the mobile communication devices are selected from the group consisting of a mobile phone, a smart phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a wearable computer, a headset computer, a laptop computer, a tablet computer, and a notebook computer.

18. The tuning framework of claim 1, wherein the tuning application further presents information about authoritative data in the user interface.

19. The tuning framework of claim 18, wherein the tuning application reads the authoritative data from one or more of a data store of government highway traffic statistics, a professional sports team attendance data store, or a data store of toll gate statistics.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein the route building engine application determines centroids of the clusters and determines routes of mobile communication devices based on the centroids.