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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020

Filed:

Jan. 03, 2019
Applicants:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Vodafone Ip Licensing Limited, Berkshire, GB;

Inventors:

Damian F. Brennan, South Croydon, GB;

Nichola Jane Inglis Hickman, Wallingford, GB;

David Pollington, Berkshire, GB;

Kevin T. Scarr, Berkshire, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); G06Q 10/06 (2012.01); G08G 1/01 (2006.01); G06Q 30/02 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/34 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0261 (2013.01); G08G 1/012 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02);
Abstract

A method and system. A common route is designated as a traveled route of a mobile device for a series of consecutive movements of the mobile device in a mobile network along a path of locations from an origin location of the path at an earliest activity of two or more activities of the mobile device to a destination location of the path at a latest activity of the two or more activities. A ratio is computed as a ratio of (i) a sum of a coverage area of a start cell in which one activity of the mobile device was initiated and a coverage area of an end cell in which the one activity of the mobile device was terminated to (ii) a distance between a centroid of the start cell and a centroid of the end cell such that the distance has a positive value. A confidence value as a function of the computed ratio is determined.


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