Notifications based on device presence

• US 8,428,616 B2
• Filed: 09/29/2010
• Issued: 04/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2010
• 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: Robbins, William, Flynn, Judson, Wohlert, Randolph
• Primary Examiner(s): Gelin, Jean
• Application Number:
  US12/893,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20120077493A1
• Time in Patent Office: 937 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.1, 455/456.2, 455/456.3, 455/456.4, 455/456.5, 455/456.6, 455404- 1, 455/404.2, 455/414.1, 455/432.3, 455/435.1, 709/222, 709/223, 709/224, 709/203, 709/219
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• 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 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/06 De-registration or detaching
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/045 using private Base Stations, e.g. femto Base Stations, home Node B

Abstract

The disclosed subject matter relates to an architecture that can facilitate and/or transmit notifications based upon device presence techniques in connection with a wireless communications network. For example, when certain mobile devices register with a particular network entity (e.g., a femtocell) that services a particular target location (e.g., place of residence), then such registration can be leveraged to indicate presence at the target location. Accordingly, notifications can be delivered to custodian devices that indicate the presence information if certain predetermined conditions or criteria are satisfied.

Claims

1. A system, comprising:

a memory to store instructions; and

a processor, communicatively coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising;

receiving data from a network device associated with a provision within a defined area of access to services of a wireless communications network in response to a first mobile device registering to the wireless communications network by way of the network device;

determining presence information based on the data;

receiving status data associated with a status of the defined area, the status data differing from the presence information; and

facilitating transmission of a notification to a second mobile device in response to the presence information being determined to satisfy a first set of defined conditions and the status data being determined to satisfy a second set of defined conditions.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the presence information is determined without employing trilateration techniques.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the network device is a femtocell.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the network device is a macro cell.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the status data is received from a device associated with a protection monitoring service that monitors the status of the defined area.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification is configured to provide a first indication that a user of the first mobile device has arrived at the defined area based upon network registration of the first mobile device to a femtocell servicing the defined area and a second indication relating to a condition from the second set of defined conditions that was satisfied by the status data.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the notification is configured to provide a first indication that a user of the first mobile device has departed from the defined area based upon a network registration of the first mobile device to a macro cell or a network de-registration of the first mobile device from a femtocell servicing the defined area and a second indication relating to a condition from the second set of defined conditions that was satisfied by the status data.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the first set of defined conditions relates to an arrival, a departure, or an absence of the first mobile device at the defined area and the second set of defined conditions relates to a state of the defined area during the arrival, the departure, or the absence.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the first set of defined conditions and the second set of defined conditions are configurable based upon input from the second mobile device.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise exporting

a portion of the first set of defined conditions to a record included in a data store.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the operations further comprise importing a portion of the first set of defined conditions from a record included in a data store.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory and the processor are included in a core network of the wireless communication network.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory and the processor are included a femtocell associated with the defined area.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the memory and the processor are included the first mobile device.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the second set of defined conditions comprises one of a state of a locking mechanism for a door at the defined area, a state of a thermostat reading at the target locale, a state of a weather condition at the defined area, and presence information associated with a third mobile device different from the first mobile device and the second mobile device.

16. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a system comprising a processor, data from a network device servicing an area comprising a target location in response to a registration at the network device by a first mobile device;

determining, by the system, presence information based upon the data;

receiving, by the system, status data that describes a status of the target location;

storing, by the system, the presence information and the status data; and

generating, by the system, a presence notification directed to a second mobile device in response to the presence information being determined to satisfy a first set of criteria and the status data being determined to satisfy a second set of criteria.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

receiving, by the system, the data responsive to the first mobile device registering to a femtocell at the target location;

receiving, by the system, the data responsive to the first mobile device registering to a base station at the target location;

receiving, by the system, the data responsive to the first mobile device de-registering from the femtocell at the target location; and

receiving, by the system, the status data from multiple monitoring services that monitor statuses of the target location.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

facilitating presentation of an interface for configuring the first set of criteria and the second set of criteria.

19. A computer readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising a processor to perform operations, comprising:

receiving data as a result of a network registration by a first mobile device to a network device associated with a wireless communications network and that services a location;

determining presence information based on the data;

receiving, from a device associated with the location, sensor data describing a state of the location;

storing the presence information; and

directing a presence notification to a second mobile device in response to the presence information being determined to satisfy a presence criterion from a first set of criteria and the sensor data being determined to satisfy a status criterion from a second set of criteria.

20. The computer readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:

facilitating presentation of a user interface for configuring the first set of criteria and the second set of criteria;

facilitating an export of a portion of the first set of criteria to a disparate account associated with the wireless communications network;

facilitating an import of the presence criterion from a disparate account associated with the wireless communications network; and

facilitating an access to a portion of the presence information.