BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA

• US 20110103357A1
• Filed: 10/28/2010
• Published: 05/05/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Unwired Planet LLC (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Original Assignee: Openwave Systems Incorporated (JP Morgan Chase & Co)
• Inventors: Chandrasekaran, Anand
• Application Number:
  US12/914,818
• Publication Number:
  US 20110103357A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/338
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/185 by embedding added-value information into content, e.g. geo-tagging
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data

Abstract

The disclosure is directed to mobile terminals, their circuits, components, CPU-programming instructions and methods of implementing the mobile terminals so that they behave in accordance with one or more of the above-characterized manners. For example, the mobile terminal used in such a wireless network includes a memory circuit that stores: on behalf of an operator for the communication network, user identity information relating to wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access; and on behalf of a third party, an executable set of communication rules relevant to a geographic region of service provided by the communication network. The mobile terminal also includes a mobile-terminal processor node which is configured in response to a communication from the wireless-technology equipment, indicating that the current location data for the mobile terminal permits the mobile terminal to alter normal rights for communicating with the user over the network while the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

Claims

1. For use in connection with a communication network having wireless-technology equipment, a system comprising:

a memory circuit that stores

on behalf of an operator for the communication network, user identity information relating to wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access,

on behalf of a third party, an executable set of communication/operating rules relevant to a geographic region of service provided by the communication network; and

a mobile-terminal processor node configured, in response to a communication from the wireless-technology equipment regarding the current location data for the mobile terminal being appropriate relative to the geographic region of service, to alter normal rights, communication, and operation for the mobile terminal while the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

2. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node is further configured, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment to change a user-alert indicator in the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

3. The invention set forth in claim 2, wherein the user-alert indicator is changed between modes of an audible alert and a vibrating alert.

4. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node is further configured, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment to block certain forms of communication to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

5. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node is further configured, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment to block certain forms of communication from the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

6. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node is further configured to store and operate an application program interface only in response to an activation uniquely defined by the communication from the wireless-technology equipment.

7. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node is further configured, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment, to change to a different mode for communicating over the wireless network.

8. The invention set forth in claim 7, wherein the different mode for communicating is operative only when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

9. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node is further configured, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment, to temporarily disable its ability to communicate over the wireless network.

10. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node is further configured to respond to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment by accessing a different network for further communications when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

11. For use in connection with a communication network having wireless-technology equipment, a method comprising:

in a memory circuit, storing

on behalf of an operator for the communication network, user identity information relating to wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access,

on behalf of a third party, an executable set of communication/operating rules relevant to a geographic region of service provided by the communication network; and

using a mobile-terminal processor node acting, in response to a communication from the wireless-technology equipment regarding the current location data for the mobile terminal being appropriate relative to the geographic region of service, altering normal rights, communication, and operation for the mobile terminal while the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

12. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node acts, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment to change a user-alert indicator in the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

13. The invention set forth in claim 12, wherein the user-alert indicator is changed between modes of an audible alert and a vibrating alert.

14. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node acts, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment to block certain forms of communication to the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

15. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node acts, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment to block certain forms of communication from the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

16. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node stores and operates an application program interface only in response to an activation uniquely defined by the communication from the wireless-technology equipment.

17. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node acts, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment, to change to a different mode for communicating over the wireless network.

18. The invention set forth in claim 17, wherein the different mode for communicating is operative only when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.

19. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node acts, in response to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment, to temporarily disable its ability to communicate over the wireless network.

20. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the mobile-terminal processor node responds to the communication from the wireless-technology equipment by accessing a different network for further communications when the mobile terminal is in the geographic region.