Patent ID: 8843157

Claim:
A method for estimating travel behavior in a mobile network, the method comprising: receiving event data comprising mobile phone control data indicative of user equipment location and user data indicative of one or more personal attributes associated with an user of each user equipment; pre-processing the received event data to produce pre-processed data; filtering the pre-processed data to select a portion of user equipment location information in the pre-processed data based at least in part on one or more selected personal attributes; performing straight line interpolation on filtered pre-processed data of one or more users in a population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more users from a first position to a second position using a shortest path estimation algorithm that determines a shortest path between pairs of points to estimate a complete trajectory for each of the one or more users based on the filtered pre-processed data; and counting a number of users in the population at a given time and at a given area based on one or more of the intermediate positions of the trajectory to determine movement of a portion of the population having the one or more selected personal attributes.