Method and apparatus for determining significant places

摘要

An approach is provided for determining significant places with greatly improved accuracy using universally available identifier information. A significant place platform causes, at least in part, a mapping of one or more communication coverage areas associated with one or more identifiers onto at least one geo-grid, wherein the one or more identifiers are associated with at least one device operating within at least one communication network. The significant place platform further processes the one or more identifiers to determine one or more significance scores associated with one or more grid units of the at least one geo-grid. The significant place platform also determines at least one significant place based, at least in part, on the one or more significance scores.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
mapping one or more communication coverage areas associated with one or more identifiers onto at least one geo-grid, wherein the one or more identifiers are associated with at least one device operating within at least one communication network; processing the one or more identifiers to determine one or more significance scores associated with one or more grid units of the at least one geo-grid; determining at least one significant place based, at least in part, on the one or more significance scores; processing the one or more identifiers, one or more overlaps of one or more communication coverage areas associated with the one or more communication coverage areas, or a combination thereof of to determine one or more stay areas; and selecting the one or more identifiers to process based, at least in part, on the one or more stay areas.