Patent ID: 8818353

Claim:
A method for optimizing mobile user data storage by adjusting parameters, said method comprising: receiving, at a storage system, data from one or more mobile users according to a first data receiving scheme; establishing, at said storage system, a second data receiving scheme according to a location of said one or more mobile users where the frequency at which data is received from said mobile users according to said second data receiving scheme is different than the frequency at which data is received from said mobile users according to said first data receiving scheme, wherein more data is received from said one or more mobile users when said one or more mobile users is determined to be in a proximity of a location of interest, and less data is received from said one or more mobile users during periods of expected low mobile user activity and more data is received from said one or more mobile users during periods of expected high mobile user activity; and instructing said one or mobile users to transmit data to said storage system according to said second scheme.