BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA

• US 20110105130A1
• 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:
  US12/914,829
• Publication Number:
  US 20110105130A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/445
• 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

Aspects of the disclosure are directed to various embodiments in which a processor node in the wireless network uses a caller'"'"'s location-based data, alone or in combination with portions of the user profile, to provide information to the telephony terminal (an agent thereof) being called. In one embodiment, the wireless-technology equipment includes a processor node (e.g., processor module, circuit, and/or stored set of executable processor instructions) that is configured to access 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 user mobile terminals associated with the subscriber data, and that also stores, on behalf of a third party, communication rules relevant to geographic regions of service provided by the communication network and relevant to designated telephony terminals called by the user mobile terminals. The processor node is configured within the wireless-technology equipment for assimilating current location data regarding the user terminals with the user profiles, and using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules to control access or effect communication with the designated telephony terminals through the network communication.

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 geographic regions of service provided by the communication network and relevant to designated telephony terminals called by the mobile terminals; 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 using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules to control access or effect communication with the designated telephony terminals through the communication network.

2. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes using geographic information to reroute calls from certain mobile terminals to certain designated telephony terminals

3. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes using geographic information to prioritize calls from certain mobile terminals to certain designated telephony terminals

4. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes assessing whether network communications from the user terminals are to be communicatively linked with the designated telephony terminals

5. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes limiting access through the communication network

6. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing an indication to the third party useful for the third party to indicate whether or how to effect communication with the designated telephony terminals through the communication network.

7. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing a location-based indication to the designated telephony terminal, wherein the location-based indication is used as part of communication rule set.

8. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing a location-based indication to the designated telephony terminal, wherein the location-based indication is displayed for viewing at the designated telephony terminal.

9. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing a location-based indication to the designated telephony terminal, wherein the location-based indication is used to route the call to another terminal as indicated by a response from the designated telephony terminal.

10. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing a location-based indication to the designated telephony terminal, wherein the location-based indication is used to route the call to another terminal as indicated by a response from the third party.

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 geographic regions of service provided by the communication network and relevant to designated telephony terminals called by the mobile terminals; 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 using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules to control access or effect communication with the designated telephony terminals through the communication network.

12. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes using geographic information to reroute calls from certain mobile terminals to certain designated telephony terminals

13. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes using geographic information to prioritize calls from certain mobile terminals to certain designated telephony terminals

14. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes assessing whether network communications from the user terminals are to be communicatively linked with the designated telephony terminals

15. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes limiting access through the communication network

16. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing an indication to the third party useful for the third party to indicate whether or how to effect communication with the designated telephony terminals through the communication network.

17. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing a location-based indication to the designated telephony terminal, wherein the location-based indication is used as part of communication rule set.

18. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing a location-based indication to the designated telephony terminal, wherein the location-based indication is displayed for viewing at the designated telephony terminal.

19. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing a location-based indication to the designated telephony terminal, wherein the location-based indication is used to route the call to another terminal as indicated by a response from the designated telephony terminal.

20. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules includes providing a location-based indication to the designated telephony terminal, wherein the location-based indication is used to route the call to another terminal as indicated by a response from the third party.