SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LOCATION SERVICES IN WIRELESS NETWORKS

• US 20140323150A1
• Filed: 07/07/2014
• Published: 10/30/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Original Assignee: Disney Enterprises Incorporated (The Walt Disney Company)
• Inventors: Mangold, Stefan, Gorlatova, Maria, Aiello, Robert
• Granted Patent: US 9,538,320 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• 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 8/16 selectively restricting mobility data tracking

Abstract

Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for managing location services in wireless networks. One aspect provides a method of receiving in a mobile device an identifier broadcast from a terrestrial wireless device located at a particular position; and using the identifier broadcast from the terrestrial wireless device to determine a physical location of the mobile device even in absence of a logical connection existing between the mobile device and the terrestrial wireless device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

broadcasting a geocode as an identifier from a terrestrial wireless device, wherein the geocode comprises an indicia of geographical location of the terrestrial wireless device.

2. A method comprising:

receiving in a mobile device an identifier broadcast from a terrestrial wireless device located at a particular position; and

using the identifier broadcast from the terrestrial wireless device to determine a physical location of the mobile device even in absence of a logical connection existing between the mobile device and the terrestrial wireless device.