Systems and methods to track regions visited by mobile devices and detect changes in location patterns

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9374671
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14679909

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Systems and methods including mobile devices determining their location using a location determination system, such as a global positioning system. A database stores the identifiers of cells representative of predefined regions in a hierarchical grid system. The location coordinates as function of time are converted to visitation patterns of the mobile devices to the predefined regions, based on converting the coordinates to cell identifiers and searching the database to find matches between the cell identifiers representing the regions and the cell identifiers representing the mobile device locations. For example, mobile devices having similar visitation patterns can be identified and divided into two groups; and information relevant to a region is transmitted to one of the group but not another. The visitation patterns of the two group after the transmission is identified and compared to measure a difference.

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INMARKET MEDIA LLC10549 JEFFERSON BOULEVARD CULVER CITY CA 90232

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ching, Kevin Toshio Berkeley, US 11 103
Dixon, Mark Christopher Belmont, US 17 134
Kilpatrick, Keith San Francisco, US 8 124
Milenkiy, Veronica Burlingame, US 19 257
Rose, Elena Los Altos Hills, US 9 91
Zhyshko, Yury Minsk, BY 9 148

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