Systems and methods for using spatial and temporal analysis to associate data sources with mobile devices

A system of building locational device connections comprising:

• a processor;
• and
• a memory including instructions that when executed cause the processor to:
• collect location data from a set of mobile devices over a time period on multiple occasions, each occasion including a timestamp;
• detect an occurrence that a first mobile device and a second mobile device of the set of mobile devices are contemporaneously co-located with one another based on the location data;
• log the occurrence associated with the first mobile device and the second mobile device based on said detecting;
• generate a link in a database between the first mobile device and the second mobile device based on a number or frequency of logged occurrences of contemporaneously co-location therebetween;
• and
• in response to receipt of a search query including parameters describing a subset of mobile devices, return a first set of designations of each mobile device meeting the search query and further returning a second set of designations of each mobile device having a corresponding link in the database to the first set of designations.

A method of building locational device connections comprising:

• collecting a set of location coordinates from a set of mobile devices during mobile device application engagement;
• associating each of the set of location coordinates to points-of-interest based on map metadata;
• generating a connection between respective users of a first mobile device and a second mobile device of the set of mobile devices in a database based on contemporaneous co-location of the first mobile device and the second mobile device at a same point-of-interest, wherein a characteristic of the connection in the database is based on a number or frequency of contemporaneous co-locations of the first mobile device and the second mobile device at the same point-of-interest;
• and
• in response to receipt of a search query including parameters describing a subset of mobile devices, returning a first set of designations of each mobile device meeting the search query and further returning a second set of designations of each mobile device having a corresponding connection in the database to the first set of designations and meeting the characteristic of the connection.