BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA

• US 20110103358A1
• 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:
  US12/914,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20110103358A1
• 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 concerns a communication network having a wireless network that provides access of back channel data to third parties. A processor node in the wireless network uses and processes location-based mobile-terminal data as geographically-tagged information sources for processing and analysis by third parties. In some configurations, the processor node receives feedback from the third parties, and/or input from other resources and databases, for adaptively re-processing the data previously provided to the third parties.

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 profiles that include wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access to mobile terminals associated with the subscriber data,

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

a processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment for

assimilating current location data regarding locations of the mobile terminals with the user profiles, and generating assimilated current location-based and user-characterizing data, and

providing the generated data to another processor node and, in response thereto, receiving a modified set of data and a set of rules for generating another set of assimilated current location-based and user-characterizing data.

2. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the processor node is further configured for receiving modified sets of data for iterative processing according to at least one set of rules.

3. The invention set forth in claim 2, wherein the modified sets of data refine sets of data for one of:

advertising, fleet tracking, child finder, and traffic alerts.

4. The invention set forth in claim 2, wherein the modified sets of data provide different types of information for different analytics, the different analytics relating to at least one of:

advertising-directed demographics, fleet tracking, people finding, traffic, types, times and volumes of network communications.

5. The invention set forth in claim 1, further including an invoicing module that generates an invoice, to the third party, for operations by the processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment.

6. The invention set forth in claim 1, further including a processing module for receiving and processing sets of data that relate to:

advertising, fleet tracking, child finder, and/or traffic alerts.

7. The invention set forth in claim 1, further including a processing module for receiving sets of data and related sets of new rules that pertain to advertising-directed demographics.

8. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the other processor node is primarily dedicated to analytics processing configured to operate in part by rules provided from a third party.

9. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the other processor node is configured to perform operations at least partly provided by rules received from third parties.

10. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein assimilating current location data and generating assimilated current location-based and user-characterizing data are iterative operations.

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 profiles that include wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access to mobile terminals associated with the subscriber data,

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

using a processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment,

assimilating current location data regarding locations of the mobile terminals with the user profiles, and generating assimilated current location-based and user-characterizing data, and

providing the generated data to another processor node and, in response thereto, receiving a modified set of data and a set of rules for generating another set of assimilated current location-based and user-characterizing data.

12. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the processor node is further configured for receiving modified sets of data for iterative processing according to at least one set of rules.

13. The invention set forth in claim 12, wherein the modified sets of data refine sets of data for one of:

advertising, fleet tracking, child finder, and traffic alerts.

14. The invention set forth in claim 12, wherein the modified sets of data provide different types of information for different analytics, the different analytics relating to at least one of:

advertising-directed demographics, fleet tracking, people finding, traffic, types, times and volumes of network communications.

15. The invention set forth in claim 11, further including using an invoicing module to generate an invoice, to the third party, for operations by the processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment.

16. The invention set forth in claim 11, further including receiving and processing sets of data that relate to:

advertising, fleet tracking, child finder, and/or traffic alerts.

17. The invention set forth in claim 11, further including receiving sets of data and related sets of new rules that pertain to advertising-directed demographics.

18. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the other processor node is primarily dedicated to analytics processing configured to operate in part by rules provided from a third party.

19. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the other processor node is configured to perform operations at least partly provided by rules received from third parties.

20. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the steps of assimilating current location data and generating assimilated current location-based and user-characterizing data are iterative operations.