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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:
Jun. 16, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 16, 2019
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ryan M. Graham, Durham, NC (US);

Jeremy Greenberger, San Jose, CA (US);

Ciaran Hannigan, Morrisville, NC (US);

Matthew J. Margolis, Raleigh, NC (US);

Kevin Roisin, Cary, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/021 (2018.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/021 (2013.01); G06N 20/00 (2019.01); H04M 1/7253 (2013.01); H04M 1/72572 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02);
Abstract

Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method, computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining position data for a plurality of mobile devices, wherein mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices have associated identifiers, and wherein the obtained position data is data that has been derived using wirelessly emitted signals; examining data of the position data to determine that one or more user is present within a neighboring zone of a venue, the neighboring zone being a zone that neighbors a certain zone of the venue; predicting that at least one user of the one or more user within the neighboring zone intends to be in the certain zone; specifying a zone association of the at least one user as the certain zone of the venue; and providing one or more output based on the specifying.


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