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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 04, 2014
Filed:
Jul. 29, 2011
Soshant Bali, San Mateo, CA (US);
Mark Evans, San Mateo, CA (US);
Phyllis J. Reuther, Woodside, CA (US);
Kosol Jintaseranee, San Jose, CA (US);
Heesook Choi, Foster City, CA (US);
Soshant Bali, San Mateo, CA (US);
Mark Evans, San Mateo, CA (US);
Phyllis J. Reuther, Woodside, CA (US);
Kosol Jintaseranee, San Jose, CA (US);
Heesook Choi, Foster City, CA (US);
Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and methods for extracting location signatures from data received from mobile devices on a wireless communication network. In a particular embodiment, a method provides, upon determining a location of a wireless communication device, receiving data generated by an application executing on the wireless communication device and using the location to determine whether the data contains information pertaining to the location of the wireless communication device. If the data contains the information pertaining to the location of the wireless communication device, the method provides identifying a location signature specific to the application and using the location signature to determine whether subsequent data transferred from a plurality of wireless communication devices contains information pertaining to a location of any of the plurality of wireless communication devices.