BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA

• US 20110105145A1
• 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:
  US12/914,797
• Publication Number:
  US 20110105145A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• 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

Consistent with one aspect, location-based mobile-terminal data is processed within or involving the wireless portion of such communication networks, and methods and apparatuses process the location-based mobile-terminal data based on information provided from outside the relationship of the network operator and the user. The location-based mobile-terminal data is extracted and processed by a node in the wireless portion of the communication network based on a specified set of rules. Other sources of location-based information originate from within the communication network itself including, but not limited to, location information regarding the nodes themselves.

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 of the communication network, user profiles that include wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access to user terminals associated with the subscriber data; and

a processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment for assimilating current location data regarding locations of the user terminals with the user profiles, and using the assimilated current location data for generating reports outside of the communication network and in a manner consistent with authorization data for the user profiles.

2. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the user profiles are established based on an underlying network-service agreement having terms that include limitations on use of the subscriber data, and the processor node is further configured within the wireless-technology equipment for providing aspects of the assimilated current location data for use beyond the limitations on use.

3. The invention set forth in claim 2, wherein providing aspects of the assimilated current location data for use beyond the limitations on use includes anonymizing subscriber-identification data.

4. The invention set forth in claim 3, wherein anonymizing subscriber-identification data includes at least one of:

removing the subscriber-identification data altogether;

coding the subscriber-identification data to characterize demographics of the associated user profile; and

encrypting the subscriber-identification data; and

further including the step of providing the anonymized subscriber-identification data to a third-party entity based on a third-party processing profile.

5. The invention set forth in claim 2, wherein the processor node is further configured for processing the aspects of the assimilated current location data within the network, for a use related to a third-party processing profile.

6. The invention set forth in claim 5, wherein the processor node is further configured for anonymizing subscriber-identification data and providing the anonymized subscriber-identification data, along with the processed aspects of the assimilated current location data, to a third-party entity according to a processing profile.

7. The invention set forth in claim 1, further including a plurality of location-based processor nodes at various geographic regions with the network, each processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment for assimilating current location data regarding the location of the user terminals with the user profiles, and processing the assimilated current location data from the plurality of location-based processor nodes for use related to a third-party processing profile.

8. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the processor node is further configured for analyzing the assimilated current location data for a user terminal and providing revised current location data for the user terminal in a situation that includes at least one of:

the user terminal being inactive to the network; and

anticipation of the user terminal being involved in a handoff within or outside the network.

9. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the assimilated current location data is based partly on location-coordinates received from the user terminal.

10. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the assimilated current location data is independent of any location-coordinates received from the user terminal.

12. The invention set forth in claim 1, wherein the user profiles are established based on an underlying network-service agreement having terms that include limitations on use of the subscriber data, and the processor node is further configured within the wireless-technology equipment for providing aspects of the assimilated current location data for use beyond the limitations on use.

13. The invention set forth in claim 12, wherein providing aspects of the assimilated current location data for use beyond the limitations on use includes anonymizing subscriber-identification data.

14. The invention set forth in claim 13, wherein anonymizing subscriber-identification data includes at least one of:

removing the subscriber-identification data altogether;

coding the subscriber-identification data to characterize demographics of the associated user profile; and

encrypting the subscriber-identification data; and

further including the step of providing the anonymized subscriber-identification data to a third-party entity based on a third-party processing profile.

15. The invention set forth in claim 12, wherein the processor node is further configured for processing the aspects of the assimilated current location data within the network, for a use related to a third-party processing profile.

16. The invention set forth in claim 15, wherein the processor node is further configured for anonymizing subscriber-identification data and providing the anonymized subscriber-identification data, along with the processed aspects of the assimilated current location data, to a third-party entity according to a processing profile.

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 of the communication network, user profiles that include wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access to user terminals associated with the subscriber data;

using a processor node configured within the wireless-technology equipment, assimilating current location data regarding locations of the user terminals with the user profiles; and

using the assimilated current location data for generating reports outside of the communication network and in a manner consistent with authorization data for the user profiles.

17. The invention set forth in claim 11, further including using a plurality of location-based processor nodes at various geographic regions with the network, wherein each processor node is configured within the wireless-technology equipment for assimilating current location data regarding the location of the user terminals with the user profiles, and processing the assimilated current location data from the plurality of location-based processor nodes for use related to a third-party processing profile.

18. The invention set forth in claim 11, further including using the processor node for analyzing the assimilated current location data for a user terminal and providing revised current location data for the user terminal in a situation that includes at least one of:

the user terminal being inactive to the network; and

anticipation of the user terminal being involved in a handoff within or outside the network.

19. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the assimilated current location data is based partly on location-coordinates received from the user terminal.

20. The invention set forth in claim 11, wherein the assimilated current location data is independent of any location-coordinates received from the user terminal.