FEMTO CELL VISITATION HISTORY FOR LOCATION BASED SERVICES

摘要

Collection and communication of data are provided on handset attachment procedure, or visitation, to one or more femto cells to provide location information. A mobility component receives actual subscriber and femto access point (AP) attachment signaling and extracts visitation data that facilitates generation of real-time or historical visitation reports. Location information is conveyed through visitation reports which can include mobile device identifier(s), femto AP location, and a timestamp. Visitation reports also can include processed visitation data such as mobility matrices, historical mobility patterns or profiles, and predicted mobility events. Provision of location information occurs without the need for dedicated handset functionality, and associated hardware, or additional battery draw.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
aggregating, by a system comprising a processor, visitation data for mobile devices and femto access point devices resulting in aggregated visitation data; and generating, by the system, mobility matrices based on the aggregated visitation data, wherein a mobility matrix of the mobility matrices comprises integer matrix elements indicative of a number of attachment attempts from a mobile device of the mobile devices to a femto access point device of the femto access point devices.