US 7,613,447 B2Granted

System for identifying the location of selected mobile stations

AssigneeAlcatel-Lucent USA Inc.

InventorsRichard Robert Boland, Mark Alan McCormick

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Abstract

The present system for identifying the location of selected mobile stations includes two components: a first component that authenticates an authorized party who logs into the Mobile Switching Center, and a second component that is responsive to the entry of a system activation command by the authorized party for locating selected mobile stations and providing mobile station location information to the authorized party. The present system for identifying the location of selected mobile stations enables a service provider to track a mobile station through the use of Autonomous Registrations or the polling of a selected mobile station or a set of mobile stations. Once communication with the selected mobile station is established, the GPS coordinates of the selected mobile station are retrieved and provided to an authorized party to enable them to locate the subscriber and their mobile station.

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Dependent claims

A system for identifying the location of selected mobile stations connected to a cellular communication network, comprising:

authentication means for determining authorization of an accessing party to request mobile station location determination, comprising:
password access means for providing password protection of said system for identifying the location of selected mobile stations, and
mobile station exemption determining means, responsive to identification of a selected mobile station by said accessing party, for determining whether said selected mobile station is exempt from location determination;
mobile station query means, responsive to identification of a selected mobile station by said authorized accessing party, for determining a serving cell site of said selected mobile station via execution of a mobile station registration process in said cellular communication network;
and
mobile station location means for determining a present geographic location of said selected mobile station by the exchange of location request messages and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data on the paging channel which serves said selected mobile station and absent identification of the executing location tracking process to a user of said selected mobile station.

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The method for identifying the location of selected mobile stations connected to a cellular communication network, comprising:

determining authorization of an accessing party to request mobile station location determination, comprising:
providing password protection of said system for identifying the location of selected mobile stations, and
determining, in response to identification of a selected mobile station by said accessing party, whether said selected mobile station is exempt from location determination;
determining, in response to identification of a selected mobile station by said authorized accessing party, for determining a serving cell site of said selected mobile station via execution of a mobile station registration process in said cellular communication network;
and
determining a present geographic location of said selected mobile station by the exchange of location request messages and Global Positioning Satellite (GPS) data on the paging channel which serves said selected mobile station and absent identification of the executing location tracking process to a user of said selected mobile station.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Application: 11/385,385Filed 21 Mar 2006
Published: US 2007/0224968 A127 Sep 2007
Granted: 3 Nov 2009
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04W 12/06
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: authentication
H04W 4/02
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services making use of location information
H04W 12/02
Security arrangements; Authentication; Protecting privacy or anonymity: protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable…
H04L 63/083
For authentication of entities: using passwords

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