Patent application number | Description | Published |
20110103356 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - Consistent with one aspect, location-based mobile-terminal data is processed within or involving the wireless portion of such communication networks, and methods and apparatuses process the location-based mobile-terminal data based on information provided from outside the relationship of the network operator and the user. The location-based mobile-terminal data is extracted and processed by a node in the wireless portion of the communication network based on a specified set of rules. Other sources of location-based information originate from within the communication network itself including, but not limited to, location information regarding the nodes themselves. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103357 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - The disclosure is directed to mobile terminals, their circuits, components, CPU-programming instructions and methods of implementing the mobile terminals so that they behave in accordance with one or more of the above-characterized manners. For example, the mobile terminal used in such a wireless network includes a memory circuit that stores: on behalf of an operator for the communication network, user identity information relating to wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access; and on behalf of a third party, an executable set of communication rules relevant to a geographic region of service provided by the communication network. The mobile terminal also includes a mobile-terminal processor node which is configured in response to a communication from the wireless-technology equipment, indicating that the current location data for the mobile terminal permits the mobile terminal to alter normal rights for communicating with the user over the network while the mobile terminal is in the geographic region. | 05-05-2011 |
20110103358 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - The disclosure concerns a communication network having a wireless network that provides access of back channel data to third parties. A processor node in the wireless network uses and processes location-based mobile-terminal data as geographically-tagged information sources for processing and analysis by third parties. In some configurations, the processor node receives feedback from the third parties, and/or input from other resources and databases, for adaptively re-processing the data previously provided to the third parties. | 05-05-2011 |
20110105077 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - A processor node stores and processes the last known location for certain mobile terminals to provide intermediate back-channel data in a form that is a function of whether the intermediate back-channel data is to be used in a situation that would encroach on information that might be sensitive to the subscriber or user of the mobile terminal, as viewed contractually, ethically or otherwise. If, for example, the subscriber or user of the mobile terminal has no such concerns (rights have been waived voluntarily by agreement with the wireless network operator or a third party, or involuntarily such as by a government mandate), the processor node generates location-identity-based back-channel data in a form that does not attempt to hide or code the user's identity and/or specific location. This form of (nonanonymized) data can be freely used internally by processor nodes internal to the wireless carrier as well as produced for review and analysis, such as demographic analytics, for use by a third party. Further, it is possible that this information can include other information from the user profile and/or the contract information used to permit the mobile terminal access to the network. | 05-05-2011 |
20110105084 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - According to certain aspects, a processor node provides controls on access to communications channels according to government-related standards which are similarly stored and used as mobile-terminal profiles. Where government employees are prohibited from keyboarding/texting on a mobile terminal while driving (as recently enacted in one federal level), the processor node controls the communications to block/monitor such keyboarding/texting while the mobile terminal is being track using the user's mobile-identification information with the location-access point as part of a mandatory government-based authorization subscriber protocol and/or another authorized procedure. In other government-related control instances, when automobile accidents are expected to escalate, government-related controls can similarly discriminate access of some or all types of communications (as discussed above) based on one or more of the following: the location-data indicating movement in a vehicle moving at all, on specific highways, or at specific speeds; alone or in combination with: the user's age as extracted and assumed from the subscriber data for the mobile equipment, the time (e.g., after curfew), or the day (e.g., New Year's Eve). | 05-05-2011 |
20110105130 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - Aspects of the disclosure are directed to various embodiments in which a processor node in the wireless network uses a caller's location-based data, alone or in combination with portions of the user profile, to provide information to the telephony terminal (an agent thereof) being called. In one embodiment, the wireless-technology equipment includes a processor node (e.g., processor module, circuit, and/or stored set of executable processor instructions) that is configured to access a memory circuit that stores on behalf of an operator for the communication network, user profiles that include wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access to user mobile terminals associated with the subscriber data, and that also stores, on behalf of a third party, communication rules relevant to geographic regions of service provided by the communication network and relevant to designated telephony terminals called by the user mobile terminals. The processor node is configured within the wireless-technology equipment for assimilating current location data regarding the user terminals with the user profiles, and using the assimilated current location data and the communication rules to control access or effect communication with the designated telephony terminals through the network communication. | 05-05-2011 |
20110105145 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - Consistent with one aspect, location-based mobile-terminal data is processed within or involving the wireless portion of such communication networks, and methods and apparatuses process the location-based mobile-terminal data based on information provided from outside the relationship of the network operator and the user. The location-based mobile-terminal data is extracted and processed by a node in the wireless portion of the communication network based on a specified set of rules. Other sources of location-based information originate from within the communication network itself including, but not limited to, location information regarding the nodes themselves. | 05-05-2011 |
20110105146 | BACK-CHANNELED PACKETED DATA - Certain embodiments configure wireless-technology equipment, including a processor node, to store and access back channel data for the purpose of controlling aspects of mobile terminals. Within a wireless communication network, a memory circuit stores: on behalf of an operator for the communication network, user profiles that include wireless network subscriber data useful for providing network access to user terminals associated with the subscriber data; and on behalf of a third party, communication rules relevant to a geographic region of service provided by the communication network (optionally, the third party communication rules are implemented pursuant to three-way agreements between the subscriber, the operator of the wireless network and the third party). The processor node is configured within the wireless-technology equipment for assimilating current location data regarding the user terminals with the user profiles, and using the assimilated current location data to facilitate communication for the mobile terminals, via the communication rules relevant to the geographic region, over the communication network. The communication rules can be used to dictate how certain of the mobile terminals can operate, e.g., in terms of operable features, applications and access to the network. | 05-05-2011 |
20110202409 | USING LANGUAGE INSERTION TO PROVIDE TARGETED ADVERTISEMENTS - A system and method for providing targeted advertisements are provided. The system and method involve receiving a request message from a request source for a content element hosted by a content source. A request description is inserted into the request message for use in selecting a targeted advertisement, whereby the request description contains information about the request source. The request description is sent to the content source, and after receiving a response message that includes a targeted advertisement that was selected based on the request description, the response message is sent to the request source. | 08-18-2011 |