US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on Aug. 26 for "Estimating communication traffic demand" (Portuguese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,018, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks (Espoo, Finland).

"Estimating communication traffic demand" was invented by Maria Carrillo (Amadora, Portugal) and Gil Santos (Lisbon, Portugal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document discloses a solution for estimating network traffic capacity demand in an area of interest. According to an aspect, a computer-implemented method comprises: forming, by using one or more social media applications, a social media layer storing records of a plurality of places in the area of interest; forming, by using at least one source storing real geolocations of the places, a g...