Mobile terminal and method for providing life observations and a related server arrangement and method with data analysis, distribution and terminal guiding features

Abstract

A mobile terminal (102, 104, 106) for providing life observations comprising a processing entity (220) for processing data, a memory (222) for storing data, a wireless transceiver (224) for wirelessly transmitting and receiving data relative to external entities, such as a communications network infrastructure, an observation logic (300) for conducting active and passive observations on events, actions and / or properties detectable relative the mobile terminal in response to active and passive triggers, respectively, wherein each active trigger is associated with a triggering rule, such as a timing rule, for conducting a related observation, and each passive trigger is associated with a change in the observation environment, such as a certain event or action, the occurrence of which in the mobile terminal triggers conducting the observation linked to said passive trigger, and a data handling logic (350) for storing, analysing, and aggregating observation data points of the gathered observation data to timed observation data transmissions via the wireless transceiver towards an external entity. A server arrangement (112) for analysing, the analysis including both context and behaviour modelling, the observations collectively based on observation data provided by a plurality of mobile terminals and guiding the mobile terminals to conduct future observations on the basis of the analysis results is also presented. Corresponding methods are presented.

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technical field [0001] The present invention generally relates to mobile devices and communication networks. In particular, the present invention relates to performing observations in one or more mobile terminals and processing and distributing relevant data at the server side through a customized interface employing accumulated centralized intelligence for data processing. Background technique [0002] Numerous schemes such as GPS (Global Positioning System) are already available for locating users equipped with mobile devices incorporating associated positioning means such as GPS receivers. People can also send photos or tweets to the network by using various tools designed for smartphones, in this context specifically mobile phones running additional applications with an enabled packet data connection. Thus, social media applications such as Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn have gained high popularity among Internet users since the early 2000s. Users belonging to the sam...

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However, some data are at least sometimes worth sending to other people, e.g. considering e.g. different "buddy tracking" purposes, the device's current location may form useful information for other people

The drawback of current solutions is that these smartphones usually implement a straight-line end-to-end delivery path, more or less focused on only one data item

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