Postal address validation using mobile telephone location information
AssigneeSprint Communications Company L.P.
InventorKevin Zhu
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Abstract
A system is provided for postal address validation using mobile device location data. The system includes a location system operable to determine mobile device location information. The system also includes an address validation system operable responsive to identifying an incorrect billing address for a customer to determine a new postal address for billing the customer based on the mobile device location information. A method is provided for determining a postal address using location data for a mobile device.
Claims20
A system for postal address validation using mobile device location data, comprising:
- a location system that monitors a location of a mobile device over a period of time to determine a set of mobile device location information based on an incorrect billing address for a customer;
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- a data store that stores customer information;
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- an address validation system coupled to the location system and configured to receive the set of mobile device location information and perform a plurality of functions, comprising:
- a first function of correlating location information with a postal address, wherein the address validation system performs the first function on the set of mobile device location information to obtain a plurality of postal addresses;
- a second function of analyzing the plurality of postal addresses to determine a new postal address that is most likely a residence of the customer;
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- a third function of updating the data store with the new postal address upon verification that the new postal address is the residence of the customer.
A method for identifying a likely billing address of a customer using location data, comprising:
- receiving a returned bill for service related to a mobile telephone due to an incorrect postal address;
- obtaining a set of location information from a location system based on receiving the returned bill for service, wherein the location information includes locations of the mobile telephone over a period of time;
- correlating each location in the set of location information with a corresponding postal address to generate a set of postal addresses;
- analyzing the set of postal addresses to determine the likely billing address for the customer of the mobile telephone;
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- updating a data store operable for maintaining customer address information with the likely billing address in response to a confirmation that the likely billing address is a correct billing address of the customer;
- sending a bill to the correct billing address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.