US 11,122,418 B2Granted

Systems and methods for locating cellular phones and security measures for the same

OwnerJeffrey D Mulleninventor

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Abstract

Systems and methods for locating a cellular phone are provided. More particularly, systems and methods for providing the location of a requested user's cellular phone from a requesting user's device (e.g., a second cellular phone) based on access rights defined by the requested user. Location descriptions may be provided at a multitude of levels. For example, if a cellular phone, or an identity associated to (e.g., logged into) a cellular phone, has been given access rights to a cell phone's exact location for an indefinite amount of time, that cell phone can receive, on command, the exact location of the approved cell phone. Other levels of location information that can be granted include, for example, proximities, states, and countries.

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Dependent claims

A system comprising:

a first wireless device, wherein a location of said first wireless device is operable of being determined and provided to a remote system,
said location of said first wireless device is operable of being requested by a second wireless device outside of a call for communication between said first wireless device and said second wireless device,
a permission is operable of being provided by said first wireless device for said second wireless device to access location information about said location,
said permission is operable of being stored in said remote system, wherein said remote system is located remotely from said first and second wireless devices,
said location information about said location is operable of being provided from said remote system to said second wireless device in accordance with said permission outside of said call, wherein said first wireless device is operable of providing a first map provided with respect to said location.

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A system comprising:

a first wireless device operable of determining a first location of said first wireless device,
a second location of a second wireless device, is operable of being determined,
said first and second locations are operable of being provided to a server, said server is located remotely from said first and second wireless devices,
said first location is operable of being requested by said second wireless device outside of a call for communication between said first wireless device and said second wireless device,
said second location is operable of being requested by said first wireless device,
a first permission is operable of being provided by said first wireless device for said second wireless device to obtain said first location,
a second permission is operable of being provided by said second wireless device for said first wireless device to obtain said second location,
said first and second permissions are operable of being stored on said server,
said first location is operable of being provided from said server to said second wireless device as a result of said first permission outside of said call,
said second location is operable of being provided from said server to said first wireless device as a result of said second permission,
updates of said first location are operable of being provided to said second wireless device as a result of said first permission, and
updates of said second location are operable of being provided to said first wireless device as a result of said second permission, wherein said first wireless device is operable of providing a first map from a perspective of said first location.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/485,161Filed 12 Jul 2006 · continuation
Priority: 25 Mar 2002
Published: US 2006/0252431 A19 Nov 2006
Granted: 14 Sep 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

H04W 8/14
Mobility data transfer: between corresponding nodes
H04W 64/00
Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes
H04W 8/16
Mobility data transfer: selectively restricting mobility data tracking
H04W
Wireless communication networks

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Application60/367,967Us provisional application · filed 25 Mar 2002
Application10/400,296Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Mar 2003
US 2006/0252431 A1Pre-grant publication · published 9 Nov 2006
US 9,635,540 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2004/0203923 A1Published application
US 11,122,418 B2This patent

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