METHODS AND APPARATUS RELATED TO REGION-SPECIFIC MOBILE DEVICE AND INFRASTRUCTURE DETECTION, ANALYSIS AND DISPLAY

• US 20110143768A1
• Filed: 12/14/2009
• Published: 06/16/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Battlefield Telecommunications Systems LLC (Berico Tailored Systems LLC)
• Original Assignee: Battlefield Telecommunications Systems LLC (Berico Tailored Systems LLC)
• Inventors: Gott, Stuart M., Watson, Alexander C., Lane, Sean L.
• Application Number:
  US12/637,502
• Publication Number:
  US 20110143768A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to cause a processor to receive a signal including an identifier associated with a wireless base station. The code further represents instructions to cause the processor to determine a geolocation associated with the wireless base station and to receive a signal including an identifier associated with a device operatively coupled to the wireless base station. The code further represents instructions to cause the processor to send a signal including the identifier associated with the wireless base station, the identifier associated with the device and the geolocation.

Claims

1. A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to:

receive a signal including an identifier associated with a wireless base station;

determine a geolocation associated with the wireless base station;

receive a signal including an identifier associated with a device operatively coupled to the wireless base station; and

send a signal including the identifier associated with the wireless base station, the geolocation and the identifier associated with the device.

2. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the determining the geolocation is based at least in part on at least one of:

a current physical location of an hardware module operatively coupled to the processor-readable medium;

or

a signal strength of the signal associated with the wireless base station.

3. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the first signal is formatted according to at least one of:

a wireless networking protocol;

a cellular network protocol;

or

a short-range radio communication protocol.

4. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the geolocation is a first geolocation, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

determine a second geolocation associated with the device based at least in part on a signal strength of the signal associated with the device.

5. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the geolocation is a first geolocation, the code further comprising code representing instructions to cause a processor to:

determine a second geolocation associated with the wireless base station; and

send a signal including the identifier associated with the wireless base station and the second geolocation.

6. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

send a signal including information configured to mimic the wireless base station and instruct the device to send the signal including the identifier associated with the device.

7. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the signal including the identifier associated with the wireless base station, the geolocation and the identifier associated with the device is sent to a hardware device via a satellite uplink.

8. The processor-readable medium of claim 1, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

receive a signal including an indicator that the device is a target device in response to the signal including the identifier associated with the wireless base station, the geolocation and the identifier associated with the device.

9. A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to:

receive a signal from a wireless base station including at least one wireless base station credential;

send a signal to a mobile device, the signal sent to the mobile device including the at least one wireless base station credential and configured to cause the mobile device to commence communication with a communication module coupled to the processor and not the wireless base station; and

receive a signal from the mobile device including at least one mobile device credential.

10. The processor-readable medium of claim 9, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

send a signal to a server including the mobile device credential and configured to cause the server to determine if the mobile device credential is associated with a known target.

11. The processor-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the signal received from the mobile device is a first signal received from the mobile device, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

receive a second signal from the mobile device including at least one of;

communication content;

sent communication destination information;

or

received communication source information;

12. The processor-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the signal sent to the mobile device is a first signal sent to the mobile device, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

send a second signal to the mobile device including at least a noise signal configured to cause the mobile device to cease communication with the wireless base station.

13. The processor-readable medium of claim 9 wherein the signal sent to the mobile device is a first signal sent to the mobile device, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

send a second signal to the mobile device configured to cause the mobile device to send a cellular signal at a specified frequency.

14. The processor-readable medium of claim 11, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

send a signal to a server including the communication content and configured to cause the server to perform voice analysis on the communication content.

15. A processor-readable medium storing code representing instructions to cause a processor to:

receive a signal including;

an identifier associated with a wireless base station;

a geolocation associated with the wireless base station; and

an identifier associated with a device associated with the wireless base station;

receive a signal including a location indicator;

determine layout information based at least in part on the geolocation and the location indicator, the layout information configured to enable generation of a visual representation of the wireless base station and the device; and

send a signal including at least;

the identifier associated with the wireless base station;

the identifier associated with the device;

or

the layout information.

16. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

define a first association between the identifier associated with the wireless base station and the geolocation;

define a second association between the identifier associated with the wireless base station and the identifier associated with the device; and

store the first identifier, the second identifier, the first association, the second association and the geolocation at a memory.

17. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the geolocation is a first geolocation, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

receive a signal including;

the identifier associated with the wireless base station; and

a second geolocation associated with the wireless base station;

calculate a third geolocation based at least in part on the first geolocation and the second geolocation;

define an association between the third geolocation and the identifier associated with the wireless base station; and

store the association and the third geolocation at a memory.

18. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the signal associated with the wireless base station is received from a wireless device via a mesh network.

19. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, the code further comprising code representing instructions configured to cause the processor to:

determine a match between the identifier associated with the device and at least one target identifier from a plurality of target identifiers; and

send a signal including an indicator that the device is a target device.

20. The processor-readable medium of claim 15, wherein the layout information enables generation of a visual representation that includes display elements associated with one or more of:

the identifier associated with the wireless base station;

a base station type indicator associated with the wireless base station;

a second location indicator associated with the wireless base station, the second location indicator being based at least in part on the geolocation;

the identifier associated with the device; and

a device type indicator associated with the device.