Method And System For Location-Based Communication

• US 20150341395A1
• Filed: 08/03/2015
• Published: 11/26/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/23/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Van Wyk, Ryan, Steinbrueck, Scott, Jennings, Phillip
• Granted Patent: US 9,883,334 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0018 Transmission from mobile station to base station
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1069 Session establishment or de-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42357 where the information is provided to a monitoring entity such as a potential calling party or a call processing server
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like

Abstract

A method and system for location-based communication. A selection of a source transceiver from a plurality of available transceivers associated with a source may be received. A telephony session may be initiated with the selected source transceiver. A mobile target transceiver may be geographically located. A result of the geographic location regarding the located mobile target transceiver may be provided. The located mobile target transceiver may be connected to the telephony session.

Claims

1. A method performed on a system including a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable memory with a plurality of instructions, the plurality of instructions when executed by the processor causing the processor to perform the method, the method comprising:

obtaining geographic location of a target mobile device from a service provider;

providing the geographic location of the target mobile device to an internet-protocol-television device;

determining whether the geographic location of the target mobile device is a permitted location; and

sending an instruction to the target mobile device for a user of the target mobile device to leave the geographic location if the geographic location is not the permitted location.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, from the target mobile device and the Internet-protocol-television device, a request to initiate a telephone session between the target mobile device and the internet-protocol-television device; and

initiating the telephone session between the mobile communication device and a service provider.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, from the target mobile device and the internet-protocol-television device, a request to determine whether the geographic location of the target mobile device is a permitted location.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, from the target mobile device and the internet-protocol-television device, a request to obtaining the geographic location of the target mobile device.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising sending the request to obtaining the geographic location to the target mobile device.

6. The method of claim 4, further comprising sending a notification to the target mobile device that a location search for the geographic location to the target mobile device is being conducted.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving updates on the geographic location of a target mobile device from the service provider; and

providing updates of the geographic location of the target mobile device to the internet-protocol-television device.

8. A system, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising;

obtaining geographic location of a target mobile device from a service provider;

providing the geographic location of the target mobile device to an internet-protocol-television device;

determining whether the geographic location of the target mobile device is a permitted location; and

sending an instruction to the target mobile device for a user of the target mobile device to leave the geographic location if the geographic location is not the permitted location.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the target mobile device and the Internet-protocol-television device, a request to initiate a telephone session between the target mobile device and the internet-protocol-television device; and

initiating the telephone session between the mobile communication device and a service provider.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise receiving, from the target mobile device and the internet-protocol-television device, a request to determine whether the geographic location of the target mobile device is a permitted location.

11. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise receiving, from the target mobile device and the internet-protocol-television device, a request to obtaining the geographic location of the target mobile device.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise sending the request to obtaining the geographic location to the target mobile device.

13. The system of claim 11, wherein the operations further comprise sending a notification to the target mobile device that a location search for the geographic location to the target mobile device is being conducted.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving updates on the geographic location of a target mobile device from the service provider; and

providing updates of the geographic location of the target mobile device to the internet-protocol-television device.

15. A memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

obtaining geographic location of a target mobile device from a service provider;

providing the geographic location of the target mobile device to an internet-protocol-television device;

determining whether the geographic location of the target mobile device is a permitted location; and

sending an instruction to the target mobile device for a user of the target mobile device to leave the geographic location if it is determined that the geographic location is not the permitted location.

16. The memory of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise:

receiving, from the target mobile device and the Internet-protocol-television device, a request to initiate a telephone session between the target mobile device and the internet-protocol-television device; and

initiating the telephone session between the mobile communication device and a service provider.

17. The memory of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise receiving, from the target mobile device and the internet-protocol-television device, a request to determine whether the geographic location of the target mobile device is a permitted location.

18. The memory of claim 15, wherein the operations further comprise receiving, from the target mobile device and the internet-protocol-television device, a request to obtaining the geographic location of the target mobile device.

19. The memory of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise sending the request to obtaining the geographic location to the target mobile device.

20. The memory of claim 18, wherein the operations further comprise sending a notification to the target mobile device that a location search for the geographic location to the target mobile device is being conducted.