Patent ID: 9019077
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method executable on a monitoring center system which comprises an interface for communication with a wireless communication network and a processor, the method comprising: identifying, by the monitoring center system, relationships among multiple wireless communication terminals based on communications within a wireless communication network; receiving, by the monitoring center system, location records each associated with a respective wireless communication terminal of the multiple wireless communication terminals, wherein each location record comprises an identity number identifying the respective wireless communication terminal and a vector having two to three dimensions which indicates the current geographic location of the respective wireless communication terminal; identifying, by the monitoring center system, a subgroup of the multiple wireless communication terminals, whose meetings between members of the subgroup are of interest to operators of the monitoring center system based on the identified relationships; analyzing the location records of the wireless communication terminals in the subgroup and producing, for each wireless communication terminal in the subgroup, current location data and current movement data, wherein the data comprises a two- or three-dimensional vector representing two or three Cartesian coordinates of the wireless communication terminals; predicting, by the monitoring center system, a likelihood of a future meeting occurring among the respective users of the wireless communication terminals in the subgroup by determining future location coordinates for each wireless communication terminal in the subgroup which indicate where each of the wireless communications terminals in the subgroup is expected to be located at a given time in accordance with its respective current location data and respective current movement data, wherein the future location coordinates define a geographic convergence area that indicates the likelihood of the future meeting occurring based on the relative size of the defined geographic convergence area; and producing, by the monitoring center system, predicted meeting records for each predicted meeting and presenting the predicted meeting records to the operators of the monitoring center system.