Patents Assigned to Vodafone IP Licensing Limited, The Connection
  • Patent number: 8825407
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a traveled route of a mobile device in a mobile network. Analysis of a network usage record identifies activities and associated activity information of the mobile device. A series of consecutive movements of the mobile device along a path of locations is determined from the activity information. Historical sets of routes of the mobile device are accessed. Each route is a set of locations from an origin location to a destination location of the route. At least one common route is ascertained from the set of routes. The locations in each common route include all of the locations on the path. The origin location and destination location of each common route is the origin location and destination location of the path, respectively. A common route of the at least one common route is designated as the traveled route of the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2014
    Assignees: International Business Machines Corporation, Vodafone IP Licensing Limited, The Connection
    Inventors: Damian F. Brennan, Nicola Jane Inglis Hickman, David Pollington, Kevin Scarr