Small Cell Base Station Device Identifier Tracking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current small cell base stations lack effective methods to identify and manage mobile devices within their vicinity, leading to inefficiencies in providing targeted promotional offers and tracking customer traffic patterns.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that utilize small cell base stations to identify unique mobile devices through device identifiers, associate them with timestamps or expirations, and communicate this information to remote servers for customer identification and promotional offer delivery, while also tracking traffic patterns by correlating device identifiers with customer data and location information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If small cell base stations broadcast promotional offers to all mobile devices in their vicinity, then promotional coverage is maximized, but users receive irrelevant promotions and experience information overload
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary identification of mobile devices by extracting device identifiers from connection requests before broadcasting promotions. A listing of previously recognized device identifiers is maintained and updated, allowing the base station to pre-filter which devices should receive promotional offers, thus avoiding sending irrelevant promotions to users who have already received them or are not in the target audience.
2Loss of information
If small cell base stations track all mobile devices in their vicinity, then customer traffic pattern analysis is improved, but system complexity and processing overhead increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts only the essential device identifier information from connection requests and maintains a simplified listing of previously recognized device identifiers with timestamps or expiration data. This extracted information is sufficient for tracking traffic patterns and identifying repeat visitors, eliminating the need to process and store comprehensive device profiles, thus reducing system complexity while preserving traffic pattern analysis capabilities.
3Measurement precision
If small cell base stations maintain a comprehensive listing of all recognized device identifiers, then device identification accuracy is improved, but memory usage and processing time increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically discards device identifier entries from the listing after a predetermined time period or when expiration conditions are met. This periodic cleanup maintains the accuracy of the device identifier listing by removing outdated entries while preventing unbounded growth of the data structure, thus balancing identification accuracy with processing efficiency and memory management.
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for identifying a plurality of mobile devices within a vicinity. The method include receiving, by a small cell base station, a connection request issued by a mobile device. The method include identifying a device identifier associated with the connection request and determining whether the device identifier is unique in light of a listing of previously recognized device identifiers.