System and method for providing location information

• US 9,294,893 B2
• Filed: 01/10/2014
• Issued: 03/22/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Millard, Michael, McKenney, Ryan
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Joseph J
• Assistant Examiner(s): NGUYEN, PHUNG HOANG JOSEPH
• Application Number:
  US14/152,365
• Publication Number:
  US 20140128048A1
• Time in Patent Office: 802 Days
• Field of Search: 379/142.1, 379/142.11, 37920712-20715, 455/404.2, 455/414.2, 455/415, 455/433, 4554561-4563, 455/456.6, 455/457
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/38 Displays
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2207/18 wireless networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42042 Notifying the called party of information on the calling party details within substation equipment H04M1/57, signalling details H04Q3/72
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42093 Notifying the calling party of information on the called or connected party
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/42348 Location-based services which utilize the location information of a target
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/025 using location based information parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/16 Communication-related supplementary services, e.g. call-transfer or call-hold

Abstract

A method includes presenting, at a called communication device, first location information corresponding to a first location of a caller communication device. The first location information is presented before an incoming communication is answered. The method also includes presenting, at the called communication device, second location information in response to the incoming communication being answered. The second location information corresponds to a second location of the called communication device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

presenting, at a called communication device, first location information corresponding to a first location of a caller communication device, wherein the first location information is presented before an incoming communication is answered;

presenting, at the called communication device, second location information in response to the incoming communication being answered, wherein the second location information corresponds to a second location of the called communication device;

updating, at the called communication device, the second location information based on a change in the second location of the called communication device to produce updated second location information; and

after presenting the second location information, concurrently presenting, at the called communication device, the first location information and the updated second location information prior to the incoming communication being terminated.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the called communication device does not present the second location information prior to the incoming communication being answered.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the first location information and the updated second location information comprises presenting a map that includes a first identifier based on the updated second location information and a second identifier based on the first location information.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting, at the called communication device, data indicating a communication path taken by the incoming communication to reach the called communication device.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising transmitting a trace route command to a communications network, wherein the data indicating the communication path is received from the communication network in response to the trace route command.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein the communication path includes a base transceiver station.

7. The method of claim 4, wherein the communication path includes a local telephone exchange device.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating travel directions, wherein the travel directions are generated based on a relationship between the first location information and the second location information, wherein the travel directions include walking directions when a distance between the first location and the second location does not satisfy a threshold, and wherein the travel directions include driving directions when the distance satisfies the threshold.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the travel directions are generated after the incoming communication is answered.

10. A computer-readable storage device storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

presenting first location information corresponding to a first location of a caller communication device at a display device of a called communication device, wherein the first location information is presented before an incoming communication is answered;

presenting second location information at the display device in response to the incoming communication being answered, wherein the second location information corresponds to a second location of the called communication device;

updating the second location information based on a change in the second location of the called communication device to produce updated second location information; and

after presenting the second location information, concurrently presenting the first location information and the updated second location information at the display device prior to the incoming communication being terminated.

11. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein presenting the first location information and the updated second location information comprises presenting a map that includes a first identifier based on the updated second location information and a second identifier based on the first location information.

12. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the operations further comprise presenting data indicating a communication path taken by the incoming communication to reach the called communication device at the display device.

13. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein the incoming communication is initiated by the caller communication device, and wherein the incoming communication is answered by the called communication device.

14. The computer-readable storage device of claim 10, wherein presenting the first location information comprises presenting a first map that includes a first identifier based on the first location information.

15. The computer-readable storage device of claim 14, wherein presenting the second location information comprises presenting a second identifier based on the second location information.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

presenting first location information corresponding to a first location of a caller communication device at a display device of a called communication device, wherein the first location information is presented before an incoming communication is answered; and

presenting second location information in response to the incoming communication being answered at the display device, wherein the second location information corresponds to a second location of the called communication device;

updating the second location information based on a change in the second location of the called communication device to produce updated second location information; and

after presenting the second location information, concurrently presenting the first location information and the updated second location information at the display device prior to the incoming communication being terminated.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein presenting the first location information and the updated second location information comprises presenting a map that includes a first identifier based on the updated location information and a second identifier based on the first location information.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise presenting data indicating a communication path taken by the incoming communication to reach the called communication device at the display device.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising:

in response to the incoming communication being terminated, updating the first location information based on a change in the first location of the caller communication device to produce updated first location information; and

after presenting the first location information and the updated second location information, presenting the updated first location information and the updated second location information at the display device after the incoming communication has been terminated.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein presenting the first location information comprises presenting a first map that includes a first identifier based on the first location information.