Method of providing services specified by feature codes based upon location of a wireless telephone unit
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1. A method of maintaining subscriber records in a location-based wireless network service, which comprises the steps of:
- receiving a feature request and a telephone number from a wireless telephone unit within a wireless network;
querying a wireless network location finding service for a current location of said wireless telephone unit anywhere within the wireless network;
updating a subscriber record associated with said wireless telephone unit according to said feature request and a location returned from said location finding service;
wherein said step of updating a subscriber record includes the steps of;
determining if said feature request is a location based wireless network de-provisioning feature request;
if so, adding said telephone number to said subscriber record; and
marking said subscriber record for de-provisioning.
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Abstract
A method of providing services to a wireless telephone subscriber based upon the geographic location of the wireless telephone unit associated with the wireless telephone subscriber. A feature code specifies a location based service. In response to receiving the feature code, the method sends a query to a location finding service for the current location of the wireless telephone unit. The method provides the service specified by the feature code based upon a location returned from the location finding service.
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1. A method of maintaining subscriber records in a location-based wireless network service, which comprises the steps of:
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receiving a feature request and a telephone number from a wireless telephone unit within a wireless network; querying a wireless network location finding service for a current location of said wireless telephone unit anywhere within the wireless network; updating a subscriber record associated with said wireless telephone unit according to said feature request and a location returned from said location finding service; wherein said step of updating a subscriber record includes the steps of; determining if said feature request is a location based wireless network de-provisioning feature request; if so, adding said telephone number to said subscriber record; and marking said subscriber record for de-provisioning. - View Dependent Claims (2)
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3. A method of providing location based wireless network services, which comprises the steps of:
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maintaining a subscriber record for a wireless telephone unit, said subscriber record containing registered wireline telephone numbers and associated geographic locations for said registered telephone numbers; receiving a feature request and a telephone number from said wireless telephone unit within a wireless network; sending a query to a wireless network location finding service for a current location of said wireless telephone unit anywhere within the wireless network; updating the subscriber record according to said feature request and said telephone number and a location returned from said location finding service in response to said query; wherein said step of updating the subscriber record includes the steps of; determining if said feature request is a location-based wireless network de-provisioning feature request; and if so, adding said telephone number to said subscriber record; and marking said subscriber record for de-provisioning. - View Dependent Claims (4)
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