US 9,882,978 B2Granted

Opportunistic crowd-based service platform

AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.

InventorsEric Zavesky, Andrea Basso, Lee Begeja, David C. Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray

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Abstract

A method and apparatus for providing an opportunistic crowd based service platform is disclosed. A mobile sensor device is identified based on a current location and/or other qualities, such as intrinsic properties, previous sensor data, or demographic data of an associated user of the mobile sensor device. Data is collected from the mobile sensor device. The data collected from the mobile sensor device is aggregated with data collected from other sensor devices, and content generated based on the aggregated data is delivered to a user device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A method, comprising

in response to a determination by a service platform that there is at least one mobile sensor device located at a target location that is capable of capturing a specific type of a first data, selecting one of the at least one mobile sensor device located at the target location that is capable of capturing the specific type of the first data as a first mobile sensor device for providing the first data;
in response to a determination by the service platform that there is not at least one mobile sensor device located at the target location that is capable of capturing the specific type of the first data:
selecting a mobile sensor device not currently located at the target location that is capable of capturing the specific type of the first data to be the first mobile sensor device for providing the first data, and
requesting that the first mobile sensor device not currently located at the target location be moved to the target location;
obtaining, by the service platform, the first data from the first mobile sensor device;
controlling, by the service platform, the first mobile sensor device to act as a dedicated access point that allows a second mobile sensor device to connect to a network, wherein the first mobile sensor device is selected by the service platform to act as the dedicated access point based on a current location of the first mobile sensor device and capabilities of the first mobile sensor device, and the first mobile sensor device and the second mobile sensor device are independent mobile sensor devices associated with different respective users;
aggregating, by the service platform, the first data collected from the first mobile sensor device with second data collected from the second mobile sensor device to generate aggregated data;
and
delivering, by the service platform, content to a recipient device based on the aggregated data.

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An apparatus, comprising:

a processor;
and
a memory to store computer program instructions, the computer program instructions when executed on the processor cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
in response to a determination that there is at least one mobile sensor device located at a target location that is capable of capturing a specific type of a first data, selecting one of the at least one mobile sensor device located at the target location that is capable of capturing the specific type of the first data as a first mobile sensor device for providing the first data;
in response to a determination that there is not at least one mobile sensor device located at the target location that is capable of capturing the specific type of the first data:
selecting a mobile sensor device not currently located at the target location that is capable of capturing the specific type of the first data to be the first mobile sensor device for providing the first data, and
requesting that the first mobile sensor device not currently located at the target location be moved to the target location;
obtaining the first data from the first mobile sensor device;
controlling the first mobile sensor device to act as a dedicated access point that allows a second mobile sensor device to connect to a network, wherein the first mobile sensor device is selected by a service platform to act as the dedicated access point based on a current location of the first mobile sensor device and capabilities of the first mobile sensor device, and the first mobile sensor device and the second mobile sensor device are independent mobile sensor devices associated with different respective users;
aggregating the first data collected from the first mobile sensor device with second data collected from the second mobile sensor device to generate aggregated data;
and
delivering content to a recipient device based on the aggregated data.

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A non-transitory computer readable medium storing computer executable instructions, which when executed on a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

in response to a determination that there is at least one mobile sensor device located at a target location that is capable of capturing a specific type of a first data, selecting one of the at least one mobile sensor device located at the target location that is capable of capturing the specific type of the first data as a first mobile sensor device for providing the first data;
in response to a determination that there is not at least one mobile sensor device located at the target location that is capable of capturing the specific type of the first data:
selecting a mobile sensor device not currently located at the target location that is capable of capturing the specific type of the first data to be the first mobile sensor device for providing the first data, and
requesting that the first mobile sensor device not currently located at the target location be moved to the target location;
obtaining the first data from the first mobile sensor device;
controlling the first mobile sensor device to act as a dedicated access point that allows a second mobile sensor device to connect to a network, wherein the first mobile sensor device is selected by a service platform to act as the dedicated access point based on a current location of the first mobile sensor device and capabilities of the first mobile sensor device, and the first mobile sensor device and the second mobile sensor device are independent mobile sensor devices associated with different respective users;
aggregating the first data collected from the first mobile sensor device with second data collected from the second mobile sensor device to generate aggregated data;
and
delivering content to a recipient device based on the aggregated data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/403,682Filed 11 Jan 2017 · continuation
Priority: 17 Aug 2011
Published: US 2017/0126793 A14 May 2017
Granted: 30 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification15 codes

H04W 4/02
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services making use of location information
G06Q 10/00
Administration
G06Q 30/0261
Targeted advertisements: based on user location
H04L 67/104
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: peer-to-peer [P2P] networks

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Application13/211,865Parent of this continuation · filed 17 Aug 2011
Application14/710,186Parent of this continuation · filed 12 May 2015
US 9,058,565 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 16 Jun 2015
US 2017/0126793 A1Pre-grant publication · published 4 May 2017
US 9,578,095 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2013/0046847 A1Published application
US 2015/0244790 A1Published application
US 9,882,978 B2This patent

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