Methods for Identifying Wireless Devices Connected to Potentially Threatening Devices

A method of determining whether a cellular telephone which is in a traffic state of a call in a cellular telephone system is a suspect cellular telephone, the suspect cellular telephone being a cellular telephone which can respond to the call but has been disabled from transmitting encoded voice and

• the method comprising the steps performed in a signal analyzer of:
• observing the DTX signaling state of the cellular telephone's reverse (uplink) traffic channel;
• and
• if the reverse (uplink) traffic channel is in a persistent DTX signaling state, determining that the cellular telephone is a suspect cellular telephone.

A method of determining a position of an individual wireless device, the method comprising the steps performed in a mobile receiver of:

• applying surgical analysis techniques to the cellular environment to identify signals whose source is the individual wireless device;
• noting a rise and fall in energy levels of the identified signals;
• and
• based on the noted rise and fall, note a position of the mobile receiver at which the mobile receiver was in closest proximity to the individual wireless device.

A method of interacting with a suspect wireless device comprising the steps performed using surgical techniques of:

• in the alternative
• if the suspect wireless device is idle, engaging the suspect wireless device, or
• if the suspect wireless device has a call in progress, overriding the signaling of the call in progress;
• and
• inserting DTMF tones into the downlink of the suspect wireless device.