Network support for suspect's geo-location monitoring and alerting

• US 20060240812A1
• Filed: 04/25/2005
• Published: 10/26/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/25/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Benco, David S., Mahajan, Sanjeev, Sheen, Baoling S., True, Sandra L.
• Application Number:
  US11/113,785
• Publication Number:
  US 20060240812A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/421
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/12 Messaging; Mailboxes; Announcements

Abstract

An apparatus in one example has: at least one high security area in the wireless telecommunications network; a storage in the wireless telecommunications network, the storage having at least one phone number corresponding to the at least one mobile terminal; detection module in the wireless telecommunications network that outputs a signal when at least one mobile terminal, corresponding to the stored phone number, enters the at least one high security area, the detection module operatively coupled to the storage; and notification module in the wireless telecommunications network that outputs a notification message when the at least one of the mobile terminal enters the at least one high security area, the notification module operatively coupled to the detection module.

Claims

1. An apparatus, comprising:

at least one mobile terminal in a wireless telecommunications network;

at least one high security area in the wireless telecommunications network;

a storage in the wireless telecommunications network, the storage having at least one phone number corresponding to the at least one mobile terminal;

detection module in the wireless telecommunications network that outputs a signal when at least one mobile terminal, corresponding to the stored phone number, enters the at least one high security area, the detection module operatively coupled to the storage; and

notification module in the wireless telecommunications network that outputs a notification message when the at least one of the mobile terminal enters the at least one high security area, the notification module operatively coupled to the detection module.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wireless telecommunications network has a plurality of mobile terminals, a plurality of stored phone numbers, and a plurality of high security areas.

3. The apparatus according to in claim 1, wherein the apparatus further comprises subscriber terminal in the wireless network, the subscriber terminal receiving the notification message.

4. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein high security areas are defined by at least one of a macrocell and a microcell in the wireless telecommunications network, and wherein the high security areas are respectively associated with geo-locations.

5. The apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the geo-locations are periodically monitored for the presence of mobile terminals corresponding to the stored phone numbers.

6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein an entering of a respective mobile terminal into a respective high secure area is detected via a mobile terminal registration message of the respective mobile terminal.

7. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the notification message includes at least a phone number of a respective mobile terminal entering a high secure area, and a geo-location of the entered high security area.

8. A method comprising:

implementing a trigger using obtained mobile geo-location information to determine if a mobile terminal is entering a predetermined high security area; and

sending a notification message if the trigger outputs a signal that the mobile terminal has entered the predetermined high security area.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the method further comprises:

provisioning a list of high security areas and associated geo-locations; and

provisioning a list of phone numbers, respectively corresponding to mobile terminals, for notification when at least one of mobile terminal enters one of the high security areas.

10. The method according to claim 9, wherein a high security area is defined by at least one microcell in a wireless telecommunications network, and wherein the list of phone numbers is stored in a storage in the network.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein the trigger is a detecting of the entering of a respective mobile terminal into a high security area via a mobile terminal registration message of the respective mobile terminal.

12. The method according to claim 9, wherein the method further comprises periodically monitoring the geo-locations for each provisioned phone number.

13. The method according to claim 8, wherein the notification message includes at least phone number of a respective mobile terminal entering a high secure area, and an identification of the entered high security area.

14. A method, comprising:

provisioning a list of high security areas and associated geo-locations;

provisioning a list of phone numbers, respectively corresponding to mobile terminals, for notification when at least one of mobile terminal enters one of the high security areas; and

sending a notification message when at least one of mobile terminal enters one of the high security areas.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein a high security area is defined by at least one microcell in a wireless telecommunications network, and wherein the list of phone numbers is stored in a storage in the wireless telecommunications network.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the method further comprises detecting the entering of a respective mobile terminal into a high security area via a mobile terminal registration message of the respective mobile terminal.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein the method further comprises periodically monitoring the geo-locations for each provisioned phone number.

18. The method according to claim 14, wherein the notification message includes at least phone number of a respective mobile terminal entering a high secure area, and an identification of the entered high security area.

19. The method according to claim 14, wherein the method further comprises sending the notification message to at least one subscriber terminal in the telecommunications network.

20. The method according to claim 19, wherein the method further comprises sending the notification message to a plurality of monitoring terminals in the telecommunications network designated by the at least one subscriber terminal in the telecommunications network.