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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 27, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2015
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Hao Liu, Shanghai, CN;
David Tang, Shanghai, CN;
Zhitao Shen, Shanghai, CN;
Hua Zhang, Shanghai, CN;
Vikram Kumaran, Cary, NC (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Location data is obtained from signals transmitted by a first plurality of mobile wireless devices in a wireless network, wherein the first plurality of mobile wireless devices are moving within a predefined space, and wherein the location data comprises a plurality of location data time points, each location data time point including a timestamp, a unique mobile wireless device identifier, and location information indicating where in the predefined space an associated mobile wireless device is located. For each mobile wireless device, location data time points are aggregated to generate a set of aggregated location data for each mobile wireless device, and the set of aggregated location data is analyzed to determine characteristics corresponding to time-dependent behavior and location-specific behavior of the corresponding mobile wireless device. A user of each corresponding mobile wireless device is classified into a category of a plurality of categories based on the determined characteristics.