Long Term Evolution Advanced Location-Sensitive Information Management

• US 20140162684A1
• Filed: 12/12/2012
• Published: 06/12/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/12/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Shaw, Venson M.
• Application Number:
  US13/712,369
• Publication Number:
  US 20140162684A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/00 Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more direction or position line determinations; Position-fixing by co-ordinating two or more distance determinations using active systems G01S13/00, G01S15/00, G01S17/00
• 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 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

LTE advanced location-sensitive information management may include receiving, by a server, location information corresponding to a location of a device that is remote from the server. The server may receive identification information corresponding to a user of the device. The server may organize the location information based on the identification information. The server may receive a list of one or more intended recipients. The server may recommend, based on the identification information, a first time duration during which to expose the location information to the one or more intended recipients. And the server may send the location information to the list of one or more intended recipients.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, by a server, location information corresponding to a location of a device that is remote from the server;

the server further receiving identification information corresponding to a user of the device;

categorizing, by the server, the location information based on the identification information;

receiving, by the server, a list of one or more intended recipients of the location information; and

during a first time duration, providing, by the server, the location information, wherein the list of one or more intended recipients is indicative of one or more intended recipients of the provided location information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the location information comprises receiving updated location information for the device.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the server, a query seeking permission to access the location information.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the server, a query seeking permission to share the location information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the location information during the first time duration is responsive to a request to provide the location information.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the server further comprises a privacy feature permitting the user, at the user'"'"'s request, to enable or disable sending the location information to other users.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the server further comprises multiple user location information, and the server further comprises a sharing feature permitting multiple users to share the multiple user location information with other of the multiple users, with the mutual consent of each multiple user.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising the server receiving confirmation from the user, whereupon the server starts sending the location information during the first time duration, and further comprising the server receiving a cancellation instruction from the user, whereupon the server stops sending the location information during the first time duration.

9. The method of claim 6, further comprising the server receiving a confirmation from the user, whereupon the server disables the privacy feature and starts sending the location information, and further comprising the server receiving a cancellation instruction from the user, whereupon the server turns on the privacy feature and stops sending the location information.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising the server receiving a query from the user seeking permission to access location information of a second user, wherein upon receiving confirmation from the second user, the server starts sending the second user'"'"'s location information to the user, and wherein upon receiving a cancellation instruction from the second user, the server stops sending the second user'"'"'s location information to the user.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the user is selected from the group comprising law enforcement, emergency rescue, EMT, and medical personnel, and at least one of the one or more intended recipients is a nonresponsive subscriber or is a suspected perpetrator of criminal activity, and wherein the server sends the user the location information of the nonresponsive subscriber or suspected perpetrator of criminal activity.

12. The method of claim 6, wherein the server further includes a privacy override feature enabling the server to override the privacy feature and send the user a location of at least one of the one or more intended recipients.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the server recommends a time duration for exposing the location information of the at least one of the one or more intended recipients for a time window during which criminal activity or medical emergency situations are likely to occur.

16. The method of claim 1, wherein the server is in communication with an LTE network, the server comprising a database comprising stored identification information and updated location information;

the database further comprising stored time sensitive data associated with the user, whereby the server may recommend, based on the time sensitive data, a time duration during which the LTE network may expose the updated location information, based on the user'"'"'s identification information, to one or more intended recipients.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein the server further comprises a machine-to-machine controller in communication with the LTE network, the machine-to-machine controller comprising a trigger that may initiate the machine-to-machine controller sending the time sensitive data, at a predetermined time, to the one or more intended recipients through the LTE network.

18. The system of claim 17 further comprising:

a home network comprising a first LTE network in communication with a plurality of home devices, the machine-to-machine controller in communication with the first LTE network, the machine-to-machine controller comprising a trigger that may initiate the machine-to-machine controller sending time sensitive data, at a predetermined time, to one or more of the plurality of home devices through the first LTE network;

a remote network comprising a second LTE network which may be the same or different from the first LTE network, the second LTE network in communication with a plurality of remote devices; and

an aggregator in communication with both the first LTE network and the second LTE network, wherein the aggregator may aggregate data from the plurality of home devices to yield aggregated data, and may deliver the aggregated data to one or more of the remote devices.

14. A device comprising:

a subscriber location information module;

a subscriber profile module; and

a time duration module including a start time and an end time, the time duration feature enabling, at the start time, the device to send, based on the subscriber profile feature, a subscriber'"'"'s location information to one or more intended recipients, and further enabling, at the end time, the device to discontinue sending the subscriber'"'"'s location information to the one or more intended recipients.

15. A computer-readable storage medium comprising executable instructions that when executed by a processor cause the processor to effectuate operations comprising:

receiving, by a server, location information corresponding to a location of a device that is remote from the server, and further receiving identification information corresponding to a user of the device;

categorizing, by the server, the location information based on the identification information;

receiving, by the server, a list of one or more intended recipients;

recommending, by the server, based on the identification information, a time duration during which to expose the location information to the list of one or more intended recipients, based on the identification information; and

sending, by the server during the time duration, the location information to the list of one or more intended recipients.