Method and apparatus for detecting and predicting motion of mobile terminals
US5572221A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 26, 1994 |
| Grant date | Nov 5, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 26, 2014 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04W64/006
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for detecting and predicting movement patterns of mobile radio transceivers, such as mobile cellular telephones, enhance the performance of hierarchical radio networks, in which network structures, such as different cells, have different communication bandwidths. One method of predicting a next location of a mobile terminal based on stored previous locations of the mobile terminal includes the step of comparing a current sequence that includes the current location of the mobile terminal and a plurality of previous locations of the mobile terminal to each of a plurality of stored sequences that each include previous locations of the mobile terminal. The method also includes the steps of selecting one of the stored sequences based on at least one quantitative measure of a degree of matching between the current sequence and each stored sequence, and predicting the next location of the mobile terminal based on the selected one of the stored sequences. Methods and apparatus for determining regular patterns in movements of a mobile terminal are also described, as is a communication network having a plurality of servers, the servers being positioned in respective geo…
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