Patent ID: 9401086
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: G08G,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method implemented by a mobile monitoring system for detecting unique identifiers (ID) from wireless devices, comprising: collecting, at a receiver of a monitoring device, one or more information packets transmitted from one or more wireless devices; determining, with processing circuitry of the monitoring device, whether the collected packets exceed a packet-threshold to determine whether or not to extract a unique ID for each of the one or more wireless devices; invoking, with the processing circuitry and when it is determined that the collected packets do not exceed the packet threshold, more information packets to be transmitted from the one or more wireless devices until the invoked information packets exceed the packet-threshold; extracting, with the processing circuitry, the unique IDs from the information packets that exceed the packet-threshold; inferring, at a server, a crowd density and traffic condition based on the unique IDs; and transmitting, from the server, a traffic estimation to the one or more wireless devices based on the crown density and traffic condition.