BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA

• US 20110105084A1
• 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:
  US12/914,825
• Publication Number:
  US 20110105084A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• 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

According to certain aspects, a processor node provides controls on access to communications channels according to government-related standards which are similarly stored and used as mobile-terminal profiles. Where government employees are prohibited from keyboarding/texting on a mobile terminal while driving (as recently enacted in one federal level), the processor node controls the communications to block/monitor such keyboarding/texting while the mobile terminal is being track using the user'"'"'s mobile-identification information with the location-access point as part of a mandatory government-based authorization subscriber protocol and/or another authorized procedure. In other government-related control instances, when automobile accidents are expected to escalate, government-related controls can similarly discriminate access of some or all types of communications (as discussed above) based on one or more of the following: the location-data indicating movement in a vehicle moving at all, on specific highways, or at specific speeds; alone or in combination with: the user'"'"'s age as extracted and assumed from the subscriber data for the mobile equipment, the time (e.g., after curfew), or the day (e.g., New Year'"'"'s Eve).

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 authorization rules relevant to a limited set of conditions including a geographic region of service provided by the communication network, and including data in at least one of the user profiles;

a first processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment for assimilating current location data regarding the mobile terminals with the user profiles, and using the assimilated current location data to monitor and/or control communication for the mobile terminals, via the communication rules relevant to the geographic region, over the communication network; and

a second processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment for implementing the communication authorization rules in response to the first processor node assimilating the current location data and to the limited set of conditions being satisfied.

2. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the system is configured for monitoring communications over the network, and storing and reviewing communications over the network for text searches or biometric-based searches such as based on voice or facial image.

3. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein one of the processor nodes is further configured to implement algorithms to search for suspicious communications.

4. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the processor node is configured to implement an algorithm to search for suspicious communications and reporting/storing/flagging suspicious communications for review by an external entity.

5. The invention set forth in claim 4, wherein the processor node is configured to encrypt user profile data pertaining to the suspicious communications for reporting to the external entity.

6. The invention set forth in claim 4, wherein the processor node is configured to encrypt user profile data pertaining to the suspicious communications for reporting to an external party for decrypted review of the encrypted user profile data.

7. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the second processor node is configured to search databases (internal or external) and uses data therefrom for reporting suspicious communications.

8. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the first processor node and the second processor node are co-located, each with access to common databases.

9. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the communication authorization rules are defined by a government entity and include rules for searching for specific types of mobile terminals.

10. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the communication authorization rules are defined by a government entity, include rules for searching for specific types of mobile terminals, and the rules change automatically in response to a change in a threat alert from Homeland Security Advisory System.

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 authorization rules relevant to a limited set of conditions including a geographic region of service provided by the communication network, and including data in at least one of the user profiles;

using a first processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment, assimilating current location data regarding the mobile terminals with the user profiles, and using the assimilated current location data to monitor and/or control communication for the mobile terminals, via the communication rules relevant to the geographic region, over the communication network; and

using a second processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment, implementing the communication authorization rules in response to the first processor node assimilating the current location data and to the limited set of conditions being satisfied.

12. The invention set forth in claim 11, further including monitoring communications over the network, and storing and reviewing communications over the network for text searches or biometric-based searches such as based on voice or facial image.

13. The invention set forth in claim 11, further including using one of the processor nodes to implement algorithms to search for suspicious communications.

14. The invention set forth in claim 11, further including using the processor node to implement an algorithm to search for suspicious communications and reporting/storing/flagging suspicious communications for review by an external entity.

15. The invention set forth in claim 14, wherein the processor node encrypts user profile data pertaining to the suspicious communications for reporting to the external entity.

16. The invention set forth in claim 14, wherein the processor node encrypts user profile data pertaining to the suspicious communications for reporting to an external party for decrypted review of the encrypted user profile data.

17. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the second processor node searches databases (internal or external) and uses data therefrom for reporting suspicious communications.

18. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the first processor node and the second processor node are co-located, each with access to common databases.

19. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the communication authorization rules are defined by a government entity and include rules for searching for specific types of mobile terminals.

20. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the communication authorization rules are defined by a government entity, include rules for searching for specific types of mobile terminals, and the rules change automatically in response to a change in a threat alert from Homeland Security Advisory System.