System and method for providing location based services using collaborative networks

• US 9,112,707 B2
• Filed: 08/15/2008
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 08/15/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Dingler, John R., Ramanathan, Sri, Terry, Matthew A., Trevathan, Matthew B.
• Primary Examiner(s): Goyea, Olusegun
• Application Number:
  US12/192,193
• Publication Number:
  US 20100042519A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,559 Days
• Field of Search: 705/30, 709/225, 709/229, 709/206, 455/456.1, 455/466, 455/406, 455/515, 455/520, 455/404, 455/445, 715/201, 707/999.001, 707/999.009, 340/7.27
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0009 Transmission of position information to remote stations involving assistance data G01S5/0236
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/12 Accounting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/14 Charging , metering or billing arrangements for data wireline or wireless communications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/1432 Metric aspects
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1016 IP multimedia subsystem [IMS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/41 Billing record details, i.e. parameters, identifiers, structure of call data record [CDR]
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 15/8033 location-dependent, e.g. business or home
• 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 60/005 Multiple registrations, e.g. multihoming

Abstract

A system and method is provided for providing location based services. The system includes at least one module configured to publish location information of a mobile user using a publish subscribe format based on a user preference mode of notification.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a processor configured to;

receive publication preferences of a mobile user, the publication preferences comprising at least one of location determination frequency, location notification channel options, SIP based notifications, SMS based notification, Rich Site Summary (RSS) and ATOM feed, and SMTP based notification;

receive a subscription to location information of the mobile user from at least one other user;

request the location information of the mobile user from a location platform;

receive the location information from the location platform;

send the location information to a notification gateway;

publish the location information of the mobile user to the at least one other user using a publish subscribe format based on the publication preferences , the publish subscribe format comprising at least one of a SIP, SMS, RSS and the ATOM feed, and the publish subscribe format being provided by the publication preferences of the mobile user; and

send a charging record to a charging platform using a diameter based protocol;

provide a visual rendering of the location information to the at least one other user based on the publication preferences.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to allow the mobile user to opt in or opt out of location based services.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the location information is provided as a visual rendering to end users.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is at least one of maintained, deployed, created and supported on a computing infrastructure by a service provider.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor publishes the location information on a collaborative network.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is a web service that is configured to provide the location information of the mobile user.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the processor is further configured to:

register the publish subscribe format; and

visually render the location information and send the visually rendered location information to the at least one other user based on the publication preferences.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the processor is further configured to;

allow the mobile user to opt in or opt out of location based services;

register the publish subscribe format; and

visually render the location information and send the visually rendered location information to the at least one other user.