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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2012
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Seraphin Bernard Calo, Cortlandt Manor, NY (US);
Raheleh B Dilmaghani, Elsmford, NY (US);
Douglas M Freimuth, New York, NY (US);
Raghu Kiran Ganti, Elmsford, NY (US);
Fan Ye, Ossining, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mobile device indexing system includes a plurality of edge nodes in communication with each other across a communication network and a plurality of mobile devices configured to communicate with the edge nodes. Each mobile device has both computing and communication functionalities. A separate mobile device index is maintained at each one of the plurality of edge nodes. Each mobile device index is a geographical spatio-temporal index having entries for a unique set of mobile devices derived from the plurality of mobile devices. Each unique set contains only mobile devices registered to the edge node associated with that mobile device index.