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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 23, 2014
Filed:
Oct. 26, 2011
Motoharu Miyake, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fujio Watanabe, Union City, CA (US);
Daichi Funato, Mountain View, CA (US);
Motoharu Miyake, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Fujio Watanabe, Union City, CA (US);
Daichi Funato, Mountain View, CA (US);
NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for estimating travel behavior in a mobile network. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving event data indicative of user equipment location, pre-processing received event data to produce pre-processed data, performing straight line interpolation on pre-processed data of one or more individuals in the population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more individuals from a first position to a second position, and counting a number of individuals in population at a given time and at a given area.