Engine, System and Method of Locating a Mobile Device and Reporting on Other Devices Proximately Located Thereto

• US 20130290522A1
• Filed: 04/11/2013
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: 4 Leaf Patent Partners, LLC
• Original Assignee: Edward F. Behm Jr
• Inventors: Behm, Edward F. Jr.
• Application Number:
  US13/861,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20130290522A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/224
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/10 Active monitoring, e.g. heartbeat, ping or trace-route
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

The present invention provides an engine, system and method for providing a method of locating a mobile device and reporting on other devices proximately located thereto.

Claims

1. A method for identifying proximate remote devices, comprising:

receiving from a first device a request for the identification of at least one third device proximate to a second device;

searching of the proximate area by the second device for at least the one third device;

receiving at the second device identifying information of the at least one third device;

comparing the received indentifying information with at least one identification record present on the at least one second device wherein any matched record is at least partially combined with the received indentifying information; and

sending to the first device the identifying information by the at least one second device.