Patent ID: 6961562

Claim:
A method comprising: using a processing system to acquire location related information associated with a plurality of mobile devices that operate on a wireless network; processing the location related information associated with the plurality of mobile devices in the processing system to produce processed location related information, wherein said processing the location related information comprises aggregating the location related information corresponding to at least two of the mobile devices, generating a set of vectors representing movement of the at least two users based on the aggregated information, each of the vectors representing a trend of movement of the at least two users of the mobile devices, and generating a measure of population density corresponding to each vector of the set of vectors; transmitting the processed location related information to a recipient as part of a business transaction, wherein said transmitting comprises transmitting data representing the set of vectors to the recipient, and transmitting to the recipient data representing the measure of population density for each vector; and receiving payment in exchange for said transmitting as part of the business transaction.