Spammer location detection
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsJie Chen, Ye Ge, Wenjie Zhao
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Abstract
The described technology is generally directed towards spammer location detection, and in particular, to locating a spammer that makes multiple calls from a given location via a cellular communications network. In some examples, network equipment can obtain call trace records associated with the multiple calls, identify a group of call trace records based on a shared call trace feature, aggregate data from call trace records within the group, and determine an estimated location based on the aggregated data.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- obtaining, by network equipment comprising a processor, call trace records associated with multiple calls;
- identifying, by the network equipment, a group of call trace records from among the call trace records, wherein the group of call trace records is identified based on a shared call trace feature;
- aggregating, by the network equipment, data from different call trace records within the group of call trace records, resulting in aggregated data;
- and
- determining, by the network equipment, an estimated location based on the aggregated data.
Network equipment, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- aggregating data from different call trace records within a group of call trace records, resulting in aggregated data, wherein the aggregated data comprises identifications of serving cells;
- and
- determining an estimated location based on the aggregated data, wherein determining the estimated location comprises determining an overlap region based on the serving cells.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- determining an estimated location based on first aggregated data, wherein the first aggregated data is based on different call trace records comprising a shared call trace feature;
- enabling deployment of a mobile base station towards the estimated location in order to obtain additional call trace records comprising the shared call trace feature;
- including the additional call trace records in the first aggregated data, resulting in second aggregated data;
- and
- refining the estimated location based on the second aggregated data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.