Hybrid location
AssigneeTeleCommunication Systems, Inc.
InventorsYINJUN ZHU, JUDY TRAN OCONDI, GORDON HINES
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Abstract
A location application can be configured to detect a call to a particular telephone number. The location application can also be configured to receive a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals provided through a plurality of different RF interfaces. Each of the RF interfaces can be configured to receive RF signals of different protocols. The location application can also be configured to determine an identifier (ID) for a source of each of the RF signals. At least two of the RF signals can be of different protocols. The location application can also be configured to insert the ID for the sources of each of the RF signals into call signaling for the call.
Claims20
A non-transitory machine readable medium having machine executable instructions comprising a location application being configured to:
- detect a call to a particular telephone number;
- receive a plurality of radio frequency (RF) signals provided through a plurality of different RF interfaces, wherein each of the RF interfaces is configured to receive RF signals of different protocols;
- determine an identifier (ID) for a source of each of the RF signals, wherein at least two of the RF signals are of different protocols;
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- insert the ID for the sources of each of the RF signals into call signaling for the call.
A server comprising one or more computing devices, the server being configured to:
- receive call signaling for a short code call initiated by an end-user device that includes a plurality of radio source hardware identifiers (IDs), wherein at least two of the radio source hardware IDs characterize radio frequency (RF) sources that provide RF signals of different protocols;
- query a database to determine a location associated with the plurality of radio source hardware IDs;
- determine a hybrid location of the end-user device based on the location associated with the plurality of radio source hardware IDs;
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- select an endpoint for the short code call based on the determined hybrid location of the end-user device and the telephone number dialed for the short code call.
A method comprising:
- detecting, at an end-user device, a short code call;
- scanning for radio frequency (RF) signals at a plurality of different interfaces of the end-user device in response to the detecting, wherein each of the plurality of different interfaces is configured to receive RF signals with different protocols;
- extracting, at the end-user device, a radio source hardware identifier (ID) from a plurality of RF signals detected by the scanning;
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- inserting, at the end-user device, data characterizing radio source hardware IDs from at least two RF sources of different protocols into signaling for the short code call.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.