Method of tracking mobile station location

• US 20070239852A1
• Filed: 03/28/2006
• Published: 10/11/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael Kotzin
• Original Assignee: Michael Kotzin
• Inventors: Kotzin, Michael
• Application Number:
  US11/391,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20070239852A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/218
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A method in a wireless communication device for tracking the location of the device using cookie files (104). The location of the device (102) is determined by the device (100) itself or the infrastructure (114) in communication with the device. The location cookie files are created by or transmitted to the device by the communication system and can be interrogated or queried immediately by the device, the infrastructure, or stored for later use by both. When a location cookie, or a cookie associated with a location has been stored on the device, it can be queried to determine when the device has moved to or close to the same location as stored in the location cookie. The location in the cookie can also be used to guide the device to a certain location of the location cookie. The location cookie can also be used to track the number of time the device enters a certain location.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A method of tracking location in a wireless communication device comprising:

receiving a cookie file at when the device is in a first position a first time;

receiving a request for said cookie file, when said device enters a position at a time later than said first time.

21. The method of claim 20, receiving a cookie file at when the device is in a first position a first time, said cookie file having location information.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the location information is said first location.

23. The method of 20, determining that said device is in said first position at a time later than said first time, when said cookie file is present on the device at said later time.