Methods and systems for managing historical geolocation data for a plurality of mobile devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10893384-B2
Application number	US-201816059006-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 8, 2018
Priority date	Aug 8, 2018
Publication date	Jan 12, 2021
Grant date	Jan 12, 2021

Abstract

An exemplary geolocation data management system identifies a passive monitoring pattern for tracking a geolocation of a mobile device and tracks the geolocation of the mobile device as the mobile device traverses a path during a time period. The system tracks the geolocation by determining geolocations in accordance with the identified passive monitoring pattern and by generating corresponding geolocation records for the mobile device. Based on a contiguous subset of these geolocation records, the system determines that the mobile device dwelled at a particular geolocation for a time interval and generates a dwell record for the mobile device. The system further presents, by way of a user interface, a map indicating the path traversed by the mobile device during the time period. The map shows a geolocation record and the dwell record to be visually differentiable from one another. Corresponding methods and systems are also disclosed.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
determining, by a geolocation data management system configured to manage geolocations of a plurality of mobile devices, a real-time reported movement pattern of a mobile device included within the plurality of mobile devices;
automatically establishing, by the geolocation data management system and based on the determined real-time reported movement pattern, a passive monitoring pattern to be used by the mobile device for tracking a geolocation of the mobile device;
tracking, by the geolocation data management system, the geolocation of the mobile device as the mobile device traverses a path during a time period, the tracking including
receiving, in accordance with the passive monitoring pattern, a plurality of geolocations of the mobile device as the mobile device traverses the path during the time period, and
generating a plurality of geolocation records for the mobile device, each geolocation record in the plurality of geolocation records including a timestamped coordinate set reported by the mobile device for a different one of the plurality of geolocations of the mobile device as the mobile device traverses the path;

determining, by the geolocation data management system based on a contiguous subset of geolocation records from the plurality of geolocation records, that the mobile device dwelled at a particular geolocation included within the plurality of geolocations for a time interval of at least a predetermined amount of time during the time period;
generating, by the geolocation data management system based on the determining that the mobile device dwelled at the particular geolocation for at least the predetermined amount of time, a dwell record for the mobile device including a coordinate set for the particular geolocation and an interval timestamp representative of the time interval; and
presenting, by the geolocation data management system by way of a user interface, a map indicating the path traversed by the mobile device during the time period, the map including a first icon representing the dwell record and additional respective icons representing each of the plurality of geolocation records, wherein:
the first icon is of a first type of icon and the additional respective icons are of a second type of icon that is visually differentiable from the first type of icon, and
the first icon and each of the additional respective icons are labeled on the map with respective sequence numbers that correspond to a time order in which the dwell record and the plurality of geolocation records were generated.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the tracking of the geolocation of the mobile device further includes directing, prior to the receiving of the plurality of geolocations of the mobile device, the mobile device to provide the plurality of geolocations in accordance with the passive monitoring pattern.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the passive monitoring pattern is a combination time/event-based passive monitoring pattern configured to invoke the mobile device to provide the geolocation of the mobile device when the mobile device detects that the mobile device has moved at least a threshold distance, as well as when a scheduled trigger occurs in accordance with a predetermined schedule.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the passive monitoring pattern is an event-based passive monitoring pattern configured to invoke the mobile device to provide the geolocation of the mobile device when the mobile device detects that the mobile device has moved at least a threshold distance, as well as when another type of predetermined triggering event relating to battery life of the mobile device occurs.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the passive monitoring pattern is an event-based passive monitoring pattern configured to invoke the mobile device to cease providing the geolocation of the mobile device when a predetermined battery usage event occurs that comprises at least one of:
a detection that a predetermined overall battery usage threshold has been reached by the mobile device; or
a detection that a predetermined tracking battery usage threshold has been reached by the mobile device, the tracking battery usage threshold associated with battery power expended by location tracking operations performed by the mobile device including determining and reporting the plurality of geolocations.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein:
the automatically establishing of the passive monitoring pattern further includes determining a real-time reported battery usage of the mobile device and automatically establishing the passive monitoring pattern further based on the determined real-time reported battery usage; and
the passive monitoring pattern corresponds to a monitoring mode in a plurality of preconfigured monitoring modes associated with the real-time reported battery usage of the mobile device and the real-time reported movement pattern of the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining, by the geolocation data management system in response to the determining that the mobile device dwelled at the particular geolocation, a point of interest corresponding to the particular geolocation;
wherein the dwell record generated for the mobile device further includes, along with the coordinate set and the interval timestamp, data representative of the point of interest corresponding to the particular geolocation.

8. A system comprising:
at least one physical computing device configured to manage geolocations of a plurality of mobile devices by performing operations including:
determining a real-time reported movement pattern of a mobile device included within the plurality of mobile devices;
automatically establishing, based on the determined real-time reported movement pattern, a passive monitoring pattern to be used by the mobile device for tracking a geolocation of the mobile device;
tracking the geolocation of the mobile device as the mobile device traverses a path during a time period, the tracking including
receiving, in accordance with the passive monitoring pattern, a plurality of geolocations of the mobile device as the mobile device traverses the path during the time period, and
generating a plurality of geolocation records for the mobile device, each geolocation record in the plurality of geolocation records including a timestamped coordinate set reported by the mobile device for a different one of the plurality of geolocations of the mobile device as the mobile device traverses the path;

determining, based on a contiguous subset of geolocation records from the plurality of geolocation records, that the mobile device dwelled at a particular geolocation included within the plurality of geolocations for a time interval of at least a predetermined amount of time during the time period;
generating, based on the determining that the mobile device dwelled at the particular geolocation for at least the predetermined amount of time, a dwell record for the mobile device including a coordinate set for the particular geolocation and an interval timestamp representative of the time interval; and
presenting, by way of a user interface, a map indicating the path traversed by the mobile device during the time period, the map including a first icon representing the dwell record and additional respective icons representing each of the plurality of geolocation records, wherein:
the first icon is of a first type of icon and the additional respective icons are of a second type of icon that is visually differentiable from the first type of icon, and
the first icon and each of the additional respective icons are labeled on the map with respective sequence numbers that correspond to a time orde

Assignees

• Verizon Patent & Licensing Inc

Inventors

• Yamazaki Kumiko
• Alexandrescu Florin
• Wille Michael
• Francis Chad

Classifications

• H04W4/029 Primary

  Location-based management or tracking services · CPC title

• H04L67/535

  Tracking the activity of the user (network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34) · CPC title

• G06F16/909

  using geographical or spatial information, e.g. location (spatiotemporally dependent retrieval from the web G06F16/9537) · CPC title

• G06F16/29

  Geographical information databases · CPC title

• H04W4/024

  Guidance services · CPC title