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US 2009/0156168 A1Published application
Method and apparatus for obtaining information about the status of a party requesting information about a mobile subscriber
AssigneeResource Consortium Limited
InventorPeter O. Roach, JR.
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Abstract
A mobile subscriber can elect to grant permission for the release to a requesting party of information relevant to the mobile subscriber release information. In order to make the decision to provide the information to the requesting party, the mobile subscriber can first determine if the request is being made from a trusted source. If the identity of the requesting party is hidden, the requesting party can be queried to release their identity to be used in conjunction with the permission request to the mobile subscriber.
Claims8
A method of communicating information, comprising the steps of:
- receiving a request from a requesting party for information about a mobile subscriber of a mobile telephone network;
- responsive to the request, identifying the status of the requesting party by determining whether the requesting party is a trusted source based on a validation of the identity of the requesting party;
- transmitting a communication to a mobile device of the mobile subscriber to seek permission for release of the requested information to the requesting party;
- alerting the mobile subscriber to the status of the requesting party;
- receiving a communication from the mobile subscriber, granting permission for release of the requested information to the requesting party;
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- communicating the requested information to the requesting party in response to receiving the communication from the mobile subscriber,
- wherein the alerting step comprises presenting the mobile subscriber with the status of the requesting party as a non-trusted source if the identifying step fails to validate the identity of the requesting party.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.