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US 8,046,003 B2Granted
System and method for location transparency
AssigneeSybase 365, Inc.
InventorRobert C. Lovell, Jr.
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Abstract
A service that augments a key element of Unified Messaging and Unified Communications initiatives—i.e., Mobile Subscriber Location Awareness—to enhance substantially the value, usefulness, etc. of the presence awareness, place shifting, etc. components of such initiatives. The service may optionally leverage the capabilities of a centrally-located, full-featured Messaging Inter-Carrier Vendor.
Claims13
A method for location transparency, the method comprising:
- (a) receiving a location update indicative of a current physical location of a Wireless Device (WD) of a Mobile Subscriber (MS);
- (b) performing one or more processing steps on the location update using at least in part information, including locations, contacts and related associations between the locations and contacts previously received from the MS during a registration process, yielding a current MS location and updating a repository with aspects of the results of same;
- (c) receiving at a gateway a first contact inquiry from a requestor for the MS, the contact inquiry comprising a MS identifier;
- (d) initializing a priority value to 1;
- (e) based at least in part on (i) the MS identifier and (ii) the priority value, retrieving from the repository contact information corresponding to the current MS location yielding current MS contact information;
- (f) dispatching a response message to the requestor comprising the current MS contact information;
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- (g) responsive to receiving at the gateway a subsequent contact inquiry from the requestor for the MS incrementing the priority value by 1 and repeating steps (e) and (f).
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