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Mobile device locator adapter system for location based services

  • US 6,963,748 B2
  • Filed: 12/26/2001
  • Issued: 11/08/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2001
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for locating a mobile device, comprising an application programming interface (API), executed by a computer, for providing a plurality of simplified procedures that allow an application program executed by the computer to locate the mobile device, wherein:

  • (a) the application program invokes the simplified procedures of the API; and

    (b) the invoked procedures obtain;

    (i) a location of the mobile device given an identification of the mobile device, wherein;

    (1) the invoked procedures are configured to interact with specifics for two or more mobile positioning servers for carriers of two or more mobile devices; and

    (2) the invoked procedures interact with two or more different methods of identifying the mobile devices as required by the different carriers of the mobile devices, and wherein a new different method for identifying the mobile devices may be dynamically deployed and used by the invoked procedures without deploying a new API or new application program;

    (ii) a description of a spatial reference system associated with the location.

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