Method of monitoring the position of a mobile subscriber as well as IN server and web server for carrying out the method

• US 6,687,505 B1
• Filed: 07/07/2000
• Issued: 02/03/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 07/14/1999
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sound View Innovations, LLC (Sound View Innovation Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Alcatel SA (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Hägebarth, Frank
• Primary Examiner(s): Trost, William
• Assistant Examiner(s): RAMPURIA, SHARAD K
• Application Number:
  US09/612,249
• Time in Patent Office: 1,306 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.2, 455/457, 455/414, 455/435, 455/461, 455/456.1, 455/456.3, 455/414.2
• US Class Current: 455/456.2
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 1/20 Monitoring the location of vehicles belonging to a group, e.g. fleet of vehicles, countable or determined number of vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0407 wherein the identity of one or more communicating identities is hidden cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for anonymous credentials or for identity based cryptographic systems H04L9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/083 using passwords cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 3/0029 Provisions for intelligent networking
• 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 8/10 between location register and external networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/14 between corresponding nodes

Abstract

A method of monitoring the position of a mobile subscriber is disclosed in which the position data of the cell in which the mobile subscriber is currently located are passed through an IN (intelligent network) server (2) to a Web server (4) of the Internet, edited there, and presented on a Web page (5).

Claims

1. A method of monitoring the position of a mobile subscriber, comprising the steps of:

routing the position data of the cell in which the mobile subscriber is currently located via an IN (intelligent network) server to an Internet Web server,

editing said position data at said Web server, and

presenting said position data on a Web page,

wherein the IN server specifies an ID and password in order to access the Web page,

wherein a mobile subscriber or an authorized person can change the ID and password by dialing a sequence of digits during an IN call to the IN server.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the position data are presented as route points on the background of a map.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Web server is activated and deactivated by an IN call.

4. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the Web page is made accessible only to a specified circle of users.

5. A method as claimed in claim 4, wherein the mobile subscriber or the authorized person determines the circle of users by specifying an ID or a password.