Authorized location reporting paging system
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1. A communication system comprising:
- a network of signal transmitting and receiving units;
a mobile remote unit able to communicate with at least a signal transmitting and receiving unit to establish mobile remote unit location information at the network;
a pool of signal transmitting and receiving units from the network some of which are pre-authorized to be able to access the location of the mobile remote unit at the network for a time;
the system able to accept or deny the provision of mobile remote unit location information to a network resource selected from the pool of preauthorized signal transmitting and receiving units, during said time;
wherein the location of the mobile remote unit is continuously tracked during the time that the location is being denied to said network resource selected from said pool of preauthorized signal transmitting and receiving units.
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Abstract
A location reporting paging communication system comprising space satellites, ground stations and a remote receiving unit adapted to resolve a global position from signals transmitted from a communication transmitter. The subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit updates the paging network with global positioning information. A caller paging a subscriber in possession of the remote receiving unit may request the global location of the remote receiving unit. The paging network could divulge or block such information from a caller depending on the requirements of the subscriber.
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1. A communication system comprising:
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a network of signal transmitting and receiving units;
a mobile remote unit able to communicate with at least a signal transmitting and receiving unit to establish mobile remote unit location information at the network;
a pool of signal transmitting and receiving units from the network some of which are pre-authorized to be able to access the location of the mobile remote unit at the network for a time;
the system able to accept or deny the provision of mobile remote unit location information to a network resource selected from the pool of preauthorized signal transmitting and receiving units, during said time;
wherein the location of the mobile remote unit is continuously tracked during the time that the location is being denied to said network resource selected from said pool of preauthorized signal transmitting and receiving units. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8)
means to resolve a global position from a signal received from a positioning transmitter;
connecting means to connect satellite signals to a satellite receiving end and terrestrial signals to a terrestrial receiving end;
satellite receiving means for receiving and processing satellite positioning and message signals;
terrestrial receiving means for receiving and processing terrestrial positioning and message signals.
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5. The remote unit of claim 4 further comprising
storage means to hold either data from the satellite or terrestrial receiving circuitry while the other is being processed. -
7. The communication system of claim 3 further comprising
at least one positioning transmitter for transmitting positioning information, the remote receiving unit being capable of establishing the position of the remote receiving unit from the transmitting positioning information and selectively providing the established remote receiving unit position information to the network of signal transmitting and receiving units. -
8. The communication system of claim 7, the remote receiving unit being capable of communication with the at least one positioning transmitter and capable of two way communication with the network of signal transmitting and receiving units to disclose a global location information to the network.
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6. A communication system comprising:
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(i) a mobile remote receiving unit located at a first network node or geographic area;
(ii) a network of communication resources;
(iii) preauthorizing some of the communication resources to be able to obtain the location of the mobile remote unit at a given time wherein the location of the mobile is continuously tracked within the system;
(iv) a control unit located at a second network node, the control unit capable of validating a pre-authorized request for the location information of the mobile remote unit and capable of querying for mobile remote unit location disclosure instruction at the network;
(v) the control unit able to utilize said location disclosure instruction for the mobile remote unit to allow the provision of mobile remote unit location information to certain network resources of step (iii) while blocking such information from being divulged to other network resources (iii) at the given time. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10)
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11. A method for divulging or blocking the location information of a mobile remote receiving unit associated with a network comprising:
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i) receiving a request at the network for location information of the mobile remote receiving unit;
ii) identifying the source of request;
iv) verifying that the source of request is pre-authorized to access location information of the mobile remote receiving unit at the network;
v) querying at the network for location information disclosure instruction for the mobile remote receiving unit;
vi) using said instruction (v) to allow or block mobile remote receiving unit location information to the pre-authorized source of request. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. A method for divulging or blocking the location information of a remote receiving unit associated with a network, comprising
receiving a request at the network for the location information of a remote receiving unit; -
identifying the source of the request;
transmitting the request and the identification of the source of the request by the network to the remote receiving unit, receiving authorization at the network to block or divulge the location of information the remote receiving unit from the remote receiving unit;
transmitting a response from the network to the source of the request. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
providing positional information about the remote receiving unit to the remote receiving unit; transmitting the positional information from the remote receiving unit to the network.
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15. The method of claim 14 further comprising
periodically transmitting a sensory signal from the remote receiving until transmitting the positional information is successfully completed. -
16. The method of claim 13 further comprising
providing positional information about the remote receiving unit to the remote receiving unit; -
comparing the positional information with pre-selected active areas stored in the remote receiving unit;
generating a sensory signal at the remote receiving unit if the comparison is negative;
updating the network with the positional information of the remote receiving unit.
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17. The method of claim 16 further comprising
adding the active area corresponding to the positional information to the pre-selected active areas stored in the remote receiving unit.
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18. A method for limiting access to the location information of a mobile remote unit to a network of communication resources some of which are pre-authorized to access the location of the remote unit comprising:
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(i) obtaining identification information of the remote unit;
(ii) selecting a pre-authorized communication resource from the said network of pre-authorized communication resources;
(iii) specifying by way of a location disclosure information for the mobile remote unit, whether the pre-authorized communication resource of step (ii) should be disallowed or allowed to access the location information of the remote unit at the network;
(iii) exposing the location disclosure information (iii) at the network;
(v) using for a time the exposed location disclosure information at the network to limit access to the location information of the remote unit to the pre-authorized communication resource of step (ii). - View Dependent Claims (19)
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20. A mobile communication system comprising:
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(i) a mobile remote unit;
(ii) at least a first network resource residing at a network node different from that of the mobile remote unit, the at least first network resource able to provide a pre-authorized service for the mobile remote unit at the network;
(iii) at least a second network communication resource pre-authorized and able to access said service at the network;
(iv) at least a third network resource able to provide to the at least first network resource, information indicating when said pre-authorized service could be inhibited from a network communication resource selected from (iii), for a time;
(v) the at least first network resource able to utilize the information provided by the at least third communication resource, to inhibit for a time, the provision of said pre-authorized service to a network resource selected from (iii);
(vi) wherein the at least first network resource continues to provide said preauthorized service to other preauthorized network resources of (iii) during the time that access to said service is being denied to a preauthorized network resource selected from (iii). - View Dependent Claims (21, 22)
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23. A communication system for limiting access to a pre-authorized location based service provided for a mobile remote by the system, wherein the location of the mobile remote unit is continuously being tracked by the system, the system comprising:
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i) a network of communication resources some of which are able to communicate with the mobile remote unit;
ii) at least a first communication network resource preauthorized to be able to access said location based service;
iii) at least a second network communication resource able to inhibit a pre-authorized network resource according to (ii) from accessing said location based service for a time while allowing other network resources of (ii) to access said location based service. - View Dependent Claims (24)
obtaining mobile remote unit location information at the network and providing it to the at least first network communication resource, and the at least second network communication resource able to operate within the mobile remote unit.
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25. A communication system for accepting or denying access to the location information of a mobile remote associated with the system, such a system comprising:
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the mobile remote unit able to communicate with the system to establish mobile remote unit location information;
a network of communication resources also associated with the system and some of which are pre-authorized to obtain said establish mobile remote location information from the system;
the mobile remote unit able to deny the provision of said establish mobile remote unit location information to a pre-authorized communication resource selected from the network of pre-authorized communication resources during a period time when access to mobile remote unit location information has been granted to another preauthorized communication resource at the network. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27)
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28. A communication system comprising:
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a network of communication resources;
a first communication resource able to establish its location information at the network;
wherein at least a profile is maintained by the system, said profile containing the identity of a preauthorized resource, identity of the first communication resource and a location access field indicating whether said preauthorized resource identified in the profile should be allowed/disallowed to access the location information of the first communication resource identified in said profile;
the system able to use the location access field of a first profile to deny the location information of the first communication resource to the preauthorized resource identified in said first profile while allowing another preauthorized resource identified in a second profile to access the location information of the first communication resource during the time that access is being denied to the preauthorized resource identified in said first profile.
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