Monitoring movement transitions via cellular network data

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9854396-B2
Application number	US-201514949183-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 23, 2015
Priority date	Nov 23, 2015
Publication date	Dec 26, 2017
Grant date	Dec 26, 2017

Abstract

Systems and methods for receiving cellular network data including a plurality of device identifiers and, for each of the plurality of device identifiers, determining a first cell border crossing associated with a device identifier, determining a second cell border crossing associated with the device identifier, determining a speed of movement of the device associated with the device identifier between the first cell border crossing and the second cell border crossing, determining, based on the speed of movement of the device, that a movement transition for the device associated with the device identifier has occurred between a first movement category and a second movement category, and storing movement data related to the movement transition and associated with a location of the device associated with the device identifier.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
receiving, at a server computer, from one or more server computers associated with one or more cellular network operators, cellular network data including a plurality of device identifiers, and geographic coordinates and time information of one or more border crossing by the plurality of device identifiers between a plurality of cells in a cellular network;
for each device identifier of the plurality of device identifiers, determining, by the server computer, a speed of movement of a device associated with each device identifier of the plurality of device identifiers based on the geographic coordinates and time information of one or more border crossing by the plurality of device identifiers between the plurality of cells in the cellular network;
determining, by the server computer, based on the speed of movement of each device associated with each device identifier of the plurality of device identifiers, that a movement transition for one or more devices associated with one or more device identifiers has occurred between a first movement category of driving and a second movement category of walking, or a first movement category of walking and a second movement category of driving;
determining, by the server computer, whether a location of the movement transition for each of the one or more devices associated with the one or more device identifiers is near one or more parking spaces;
determining, by the server computer, that one or more parking spaces is vacant based on a movement transition of one or more devices associated with the one or more identifiers near the one or more parking spaces occurring between a first movement category of walking and a second movement category of driving;
determining, by the server computer, that one or more parking spaces is occupied based on a movement transition of one or more devices associated with the one or more identifiers near the one or more parking spaces occurring between a first movement category of driving and a second movement category of walking;
storing, by the server computer, data indicating a status of vacant or occupied for the one or more parking spaces;
receiving, by the server computer, a request from a third party server for parking data associated with a specified location; and
sending, by the server computer, the parking data including the status of vacant or occupied for one or more parking spaces for the specified location to the third party server.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cellular network data includes data from active devices and idle devices.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining the location of the movement transition for each of the one or more devices.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the request for parking data is a request for a heat map of probability to find street parking in the specified location, and wherein sending the parking data includes:
calculating at least one probability of street parking on at least one street segment within the specified location;
sending the at least one street segment, the at least one probability of street parking on the at least one street segment, and a probability time stamp; and
wherein the at least one probability is shown in the heat map of probability to find street parking in the specified location.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the request for parking data is a request for an estimated time to park and wherein sending parking data includes:
calculating an estimated time to park within the specified location; and
sending the estimated time to park.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the cellular network data further comprises a timestamp for the reception of the cellular network data.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining a direction of movement of a device associated with each device identifier of the plurality of identifiers based on the geographic coordinates and time information of the one or more border crossing by the plurality of device identifiers between the plurality of cells in the cellular network; and
wherein determining that a movement transition has occurred is further based on the direction of movement.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein determining that a movement transition has occurred is also based on movement data for other devices associated with the plurality of device identifiers.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving geographical data comprising at least one of street layouts, driving direction, and allowed parking and regulations;
storing the geographical data; and
wherein determining that a movement transition has occurred is further based on the geographical data.

10. A server computer comprising:
a processor;
a communication interface; and
a computer readable medium coupled with the processor, the computer readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that are executable by the processor to cause a computing device to perform operations comprising:
receiving, from one or more server computers associated with one or more cellular network operators, cellular network data including a plurality of device identifiers, and geographic coordinates and time information of one or more border crossing by the plurality of device identifiers between a plurality of cells in a cellular network;
for each device identifier of the plurality of device identifiers, determining a speed of movement of a device associated with each device identifier of the plurality of device identifiers based on the geographic coordinates and time information of one or more border crossing by the plurality of device identifiers between the plurality of cells in the cellular network;
determining, based on the speed of movement of each device associated with each device identifier of the plurality of device identifiers, that a movement transition for one or more devices associated with one or more device identifiers has occurred between a first movement category of driving and a second movement category of walking, or a first movement category of walking and a second movement category of driving;
determining whether a location of the movement transition for each of the one or more devices associated with the one or more device identifiers is near one or more parking spaces;
determining that one or more parking spaces is vacant based on a movement transition of one or more devices associated with the one or more identifiers near the one or more parking spaces occurring between a first movement category of walking and a second movement category of driving;
determining that one or more parking spaces is occupied based on a movement transition of one or more devices associated with the one or more identifiers near the one or more parking spaces occurring between a first movement category of driving and a second movement category of walking;
storing data indicating a status of vacant or occupied for the one or more parking spaces;
receiving a request from a third party server for parking data associated with a specified location; and
sending the parking data including the status of vacant or occupied for one or more parking spaces for the specified location to the third party server.

11. The server computer of claim 10 , wherein the cellular network data includes data from active devices and idle devices.

12. The server computer of claim 10 , the operations further comprising:
determining the location of the movement transition for each of the one or more devices.

13. The server computer of claim 10 , wherein the request for parking data is a request for a heat map of probability to fin

Assignees

• Sap Portals Israel Ltd

Inventors

• Himmelreich Evgeny
• Cohen-Zur Nirit
• Ebner Rachel

Classifications

• H04W4/028

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G08G1/147

  where the parking area is within an open public zone, e.g. city centre · CPC title

• H04W4/027

  using movement velocity, acceleration information · CPC title

• G08G1/065

  by counting the vehicles in a section of the road or in a parking area, i.e. comparing incoming count with outgoing count · CPC title

• H04W4/021 Primary

  Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences · CPC title