Offline method to determine location of a vehicle using mobile phones

A method for providing the real-time location of the a vehicle for people to a person located outside the vehicle using the information of the users travelling inside the vehicle, wherein the method comprising the step of:

• automatically uploading receiving, by a central server, a list of connected cell tower information automatically uploaded from a set plurality of candidate users to a central server, potentially travelling inside the vehicle;
• characterized in that the method further includes,
• converting, by the central server, the connected cell tower information from a candidate user from the list of cell tower information which is associated with a first candidate user from the plurality of candidate users to a first positional time series data. data;
• representing, by the central server, the real-time location of the vehicle as another a second positional time series data, data;
• comparing, by the central server, the first positional time series data of the user with the second positional time series data of the vehicle to determine if the first candidate user is travelling inside the vehicle, vehicle;
• when the first candidate user is determined to be travelling inside the vehicle, using, by the central server, the first positional time series data of the user classified inside the vehicle to extend the second positional time series data of the vehicle, and thereby to update the real real-time location of the vehicle. vehicles;
• and
• providing, by the central server via Internet, the real updated real-time location of the vehicle to the a mobile device of people associated with the person located outside the vehicle via internet.

A mobile device comprising

• a display;
• one or more memory devices configured to store instructions;
• and
• one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations, the operations comprising:
• storing, in the one or more memory devices, route information for a vehicle in which a user associated with the computing device is travelling the route information including a route;
• storing, in the one or more memory devices respective locations of a plurality of cell towers, the plurality of cell towers including a first cell tower;
• receiving information from the first cell tower, the information including a cell tower identifier associated with the first cell tower;
• determining the location of the first cell tower by mapping the cell tower identifier with the location of the first cell tower stored in the mobile device, without using a global positioning system (GPS) or being connected to Internet;
• projecting the location of the first cell tower onto the route associated with the route information;
• determining the real-time location of the vehicle based on the projection of the location of the first cell tower onto the route, without using the GPS or being connected to the Internet;
• and
• providing for presentation on the display, a real-time location of the vehicle.