摘要 |
A user location tracking method allows a topology of a travel path taken by a user to be estimated without the use of location information such as GPS coordinates, so that a travel range of the user who only carries a small-sized terminal can be tracked at all times. The mobility tracking method is employed by a user location tracking device which uses radio waves sent from wireless devices distributed ubiquitously, the mobility tracking method including: detecting wireless device information identifying wireless devices out of the ubiquitously available wireless devices when the radio waves are received at a location where the user location tracking device is situated; storing the detected wireless device information as historical data; and estimating a topology, as the user location tracking device is moving, that shows a positional relation and a connection relation of a travel path taken by the user location tracking device, the estimation being performed on the basis that the location of the user location tracking device has deviated from a previously tracked path which has been traveled before by the user location tracking device and that the location of the user location tracking device has returned to the previously tracked path, using the stored historical data.
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