Wireless chat automatic status signaling
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Abstract
A technique and apparatus to provide status tracking of presence and/or location of a mobile, wireless device to a requesting entity even outside of a particular wireless system. This allows wireless service providers the ability to monitor and log changes in the status of mobile stations within and/or outside their networks. Embodiments are disclosed wherein presence and/or location information is provided to entities outside of a particular servicing wireless network using the mechanisms of call processing components of a mobile network (e.g., call setup procedures), and using standard mechanisms currently available to any appropriately conforming Mobile Switching Center (MSC) element. In one disclosed embodiment, a wireless chat tracking system is implemented which utilizes a change in mobile registration status to automatically notify a chat group system outside the wireless network of current status information activity regarding a relevant device, e.g., registration activity or inactivity timeout. In the wireless chat automatic status tracking system, a registration notification (REGNOT) message is either explicitly forwarded or copied to an external IP based application (e.g., to a mobile chat group system). The change in mobile registration is communicated via a suitable signaling link (e.g., SS7, TCP/IP, etc.) between a Home Location Register (HLR) and the chat group system. Therefore, instead of a conventionally closed system using SS7 messages, REGNOT messages are pushed out over TCP/IP connections to external applications (e.g., chat servers) to automatically notify the external system of the location of a particular user.
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32. A mobile device status tracking system, comprising:
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a registration notification message receiver to receive a registration notification message from a home location register; a chat server to notify subscribers of a chat group of a particular subscriber'"'"'s chat group status; and a registration notification message forwarder to forward said registration notification message received by said registration notification message receiver over an Internet Protocol (IP) connection to said chat server; wherein said chat server automatically notifies said chat group of said particular subscriber'"'"'s chat group status in response to receipt of said registration notification message. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37)
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38. A method of tracking a status of a mobile device, comprising:
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receiving a registration notification message from a home location register at a registration notification message receiver; notifying, from a chat server, subscribers of a chat group of a particular subscriber'"'"'s chat group status; and forwarding, from a registration notification message forwarder, said registration notification message received by said registration notification message receiver over an Internet Protocol (IP) connection to said chat server; automatically notifying, from said chat server, said chat group of said particular subscriber'"'"'s chat group status in response to receipt of said registration notification message. - View Dependent Claims (39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 48, 49)
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44. Apparatus for tracking a status of a mobile device, comprising:
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means for receiving a registration notification message from a home location register at a registration notification message receiver; means for notifying, from a chat server, subscribers of a chat group of a particular subscriber'"'"'s chat group status; and means for forwarding, from a registration notification message forwarder, said registration notification message received by said registration notification message receiver over an Internet Protocol (IP) connection to said chat server; means for automatically notifying, from said chat server, said chat group of said particular subscriber'"'"'s chat group status in response to receipt of said registration notification message. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46)
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