Method for Enabling and Blocking Distance and Location Information Between Callers

• US 20110293082A1
• Filed: 06/01/2011
• Published: 12/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 06/01/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Rajinder Gauri
• Original Assignee: Rajinder Gauri
• Inventors: Gauri, Rajinder
• Application Number:
  US13/150,324
• Publication Number:
  US 20110293082A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 379/142.02
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/57 Arrangements for indicating or recording the number of the calling subscriber at the called subscriber's set at the operator set in a manual exchange H04M5/20
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72463 to restrict the functionality of the device

Abstract

A method and system are disclosed for enabling and blocking distance and location information between callers. The method includes a subscribing caller'"'"'s phone identifying the caller by name and location and initiating a request to locate (RTL) signal to a called party'"'"'s phone. The called party in turn sends an enable to locate (ETL) signal back to the called party to initiate calculations for determining the called party'"'"'s distance from the caller. The method also includes an ETL bypass for business relations where an employer has a need to locate the employee. The method may also include a blacklisting feature allowing the called party to block RTL from undesired parties. A disclosed computer program product triangulates the distance between callers using the transmission time between them and stationary transmitters, landline relays, and/or internet routers. An alternate embodiment may include trilateration data from GPS satellites in determining the distance between callers.

Claims

1. A method for managing location information between callers via a network, comprising:

sending a request to locate (RTL) signal from a calling party'"'"'s communication device to a called party'"'"'s communication device, the RTL signal including data regarding the calling party;

receiving the RTL signal at the called party'"'"'s communication device and presenting the calling party data to the called party and querying the called party to accept the request;

performing a plurality of calculations for determining a distance between the calling party and the called party and a location for each party, a result of the calculations comprising the called party data;

returning an enable to locate (ETL) signal from the called party'"'"'s device to the caller'"'"'s device based on a positive response to the query, the ETL signal including data regarding the called party; and

blocking the called party distance and location data from calculation and transfer via the network between the calling party and the called party based on a negative response to the query to accept the request.

2. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, wherein the network comprises one of a voice, a data, an internet, a wireless and a satellite technology and any combination thereof.

3. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, wherein a communication device comprises any electronic electromagnetic communications device including a landline telephone, a cellular telephone, a voice-over-internet-protocol phone, a texting device, a computer, a personal digital assistant, a walkie-talkie, a satellite phone, a smart wrist-watch and the like.

4. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, wherein the calling party data includes at least one of a calling party'"'"'s name and a calling party'"'"'s location based on whether the calling party is subscribed to a location identification service and the calling party does not block a disclosure of his or her location.

5. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, wherein the called party data includes at least one of a called party'"'"'s name and a called party'"'"'s location based on whether the called party is subscribed to a location identification service and the called party does not block a disclosure of his or her location.

6. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, wherein performing a plurality of calculations for determining a distance between the calling party and the called party and a location for each party further comprises triangulating the location and distance from the calling party to a called party using a transmission time between the callers and multiple stationary wireless transmitters, landline relays and internet routers.

7. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, wherein performing a plurality of calculations for determining a distance between the calling party and the called party and a location for each party further comprises trilaterating data from GPS satellites to determine the distance between the caller and the called party given location information for the calling party and the called party.

8. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, wherein performing a plurality of calculations for determining a distance between the calling party and the called party and a location for each party further comprises:

transmitting one of at least one landline relay and at least one internet router used in placing a call from one party to another party; and

determining a distance from a party'"'"'s landline connection to a plurality of landline relays and internet routers enroute to the other party.

9. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, wherein blocking the called party distance and location data further comprises matching a calling party'"'"'s communication number with one of a storage of called party accepted numbers and responding negatively to the query to accept the request to locate when there is no match.

10. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, wherein location information may be expressed in at least one of geographical coordinate and in a postal zip code.

11. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, further comprising performing a plurality of calculations for determining a distance between the called party and the third party and a location for each party, a result of the calculations comprising a third party data.

12. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, further comprising:

querying the calling party to accept transferring the calling party data to the called party;

blocking the transfer of the calling party'"'"'s data based on a negative response to the query to transfer the calling party data to the called party; and

transferring the calling party'"'"'s data based on a positive response to the query to transfer the calling party data to the called party.

13. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, further comprising bypassing the RTL accept query and automatically returning an ETL signal from the called party'"'"'s communication device to the calling party'"'"'s communication device for certain business and personal relationships, the bypass based on one of a variable set in software and a switch set in the communications devices.

14. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, further comprising blacklisting an RTL coming from a phone number and a name of an undesired party specified by the called party and automatically responding negatively to the query to accept the request and blocking the called party distance and location data from calculation and transfer via the network between the calling party and the called party.

15. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, further comprising conference calling a plurality of called parties and calculating called party data for each of the called parties and electronically displaying respective data for each of the plurality of called parties.

16. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 1, further comprising calculating a travel speed for a called party by dividing a difference in position of the called party at a first point and at a second point by a difference in time between the two points.

17. The method for managing location information between callers of claim 14, further comprising calculating an estimated arrival time of a called party at a third party location based on the calculated speed of travel for the called party and a route of the called party to the third party.

18. A computer program product comprising a computer readable medium having computer useable instruction codes executable to perform operations for managing location information between callers via a network, the operations of the computer program product comprising:

a set of instruction codes for sending a request to locate (RTL) signal from a calling party'"'"'s communication device to a called party'"'"'s communication device, the RTL signal including data regarding the calling party;

a set of instruction codes for receiving the RTL signal at the called party'"'"'s communication device and presenting the calling party data to the called party and querying the called party to accept the request;

a set of instruction codes for performing a plurality of calculations for determining a distance between the calling party and the called party and a location for each party, a result of the calculations comprising the called party data;

a set of instruction codes for returning an enable to locate (ETL) signal from the called party'"'"'s device to the calling party'"'"'s device based on a positive response to the query, the ETL signal including data regarding the called party; and

a set of instruction codes for blocking the called party distance and location data from calculation and transfer via the network between the calling party and the called party based on a negative response to the query to accept the request.

19. The computer program product of claim 18, further comprising displaying the calling party data, the called party data, a third party data and an estimated time of arrival for at least one of a plurality of called parties at a third party location, the displaying performed on an electronic display device.

20. A protocol for managing location information between callers via a network, comprising:

transferring a request to locate (RTL) signal from a calling party'"'"'s communication device to a called party'"'"'s communication device, the RTL signal including data regarding the calling party;

querying the called party to accept the request to locate based on the transfer of the request and the calling party data;

returning an enable to locate (ETL) signal from the called party'"'"'s device to the calling party'"'"'s device based on a positive response to the query, the ETL signal including location and distance data regarding the called party; and

blocking a called party distance and location data from transfer via the network between the called party and the calling party based on a negative response to the query to accept the request to locate.