CA2434475A1 - Method and apparatus for locating mobile units tracking another - Google Patents
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Abstract
A mobile location reporting communication system consists of a network of communication sources and targets managed by one or more control station. In the system, a communication source may request for the location of a mobile communication target from the network. The target conveys its location to th e network and that information is provided to the source. In the invention a mobile communication source request for the location of mobile communication target s that are present in a prescribed geographic boundary .The network provides to the source only remote targets that are present in the prescribed boundary. Also in the invention, a concealed or clandestine mobile portable target, close to the mobile portable source, may be tracking the source. The source may invoke a method that may result i n the disclosure of mobile targets that have traveled a pre-specified distance wit h the source while maintaining proximity to the source.
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1 ) A method for providing the location of portable mobile remote units to a wireless consumer requesting the location of PRUs within a geographic region of a communication system comprising:
i) obtaining from the wireless consumer, geographic boundary information indicating where a search should be undertaken for PRUs;
ii) providing the information defined in (i) to a control unit of the system;
iii) generating at said control unit a request for the location of PRUs within said geographic boundary;
iv) verifying after said request, whether a portable mobile remote unit in said geographic boundary responded with location information;
v) providing to the wireless consumer, at least the identity and location of a portable remote unit after the verification of (iv);
i) obtaining from the wireless consumer, geographic boundary information indicating where a search should be undertaken for PRUs;
ii) providing the information defined in (i) to a control unit of the system;
iii) generating at said control unit a request for the location of PRUs within said geographic boundary;
iv) verifying after said request, whether a portable mobile remote unit in said geographic boundary responded with location information;
v) providing to the wireless consumer, at least the identity and location of a portable remote unit after the verification of (iv);
2) A method further employed in 1 to determine if a portable mobile remote unit is within a specific geographic boundary defined by the system comprising:
i) receiving at the PRU geographic boundary information, within which the location of the PRU should be disclosed;
ii) establishing at the PRU if the PRU is within said geographic boundary and, if yes, forwarding the location of the PRU to the system;
i) receiving at the PRU geographic boundary information, within which the location of the PRU should be disclosed;
ii) establishing at the PRU if the PRU is within said geographic boundary and, if yes, forwarding the location of the PRU to the system;
3. A method further employed in 1 to obtain the location of mobile remote units wherein said prescribed geographic boundary obtained from the wireless consumer is wider than normal, comprising;
i) splitting the wider than normal geographic boundary into sub geographic regions to constitute the geographic boundary;
ii) requesting in the sub geographic region(s), the location of remote units that are present in each sub region;
iii) verifying after each request of (ii) in a sub region, whether at least a portable remote unit disclosed a global location in the region;
iv) maintaining a list of all remote units that disclosed their location after each request from the verification of step (iii);
v) providing to the system and from the list of (v) the location of at least a remote unit that revealed its location in the sub region.
i) splitting the wider than normal geographic boundary into sub geographic regions to constitute the geographic boundary;
ii) requesting in the sub geographic region(s), the location of remote units that are present in each sub region;
iii) verifying after each request of (ii) in a sub region, whether at least a portable remote unit disclosed a global location in the region;
iv) maintaining a list of all remote units that disclosed their location after each request from the verification of step (iii);
v) providing to the system and from the list of (v) the location of at least a remote unit that revealed its location in the sub region.
4. A technique according to claim 3, utilized to terminate a request for the location information of portable mobile remote units in the prescribed geographic boundary comprising:
checking to establish that a request for remote unit location information was undertaken in all re-defined or sub regions of the prescribed boundary or a portable remote unit in a region responded with location information.
checking to establish that a request for remote unit location information was undertaken in all re-defined or sub regions of the prescribed boundary or a portable remote unit in a region responded with location information.
5. A method utilized to provide to a source of request, the location of mobile remote units that exist in a geographic region from the list according to claim 3 comprising:
(i) estimating and obtaining from the list, the location mobile remote units that are closer to the source of request;
(ii) providing the information obtained in (i) to the source of request before releasing the location of other mobile remote units that are further from the source of request.
(i) estimating and obtaining from the list, the location mobile remote units that are closer to the source of request;
(ii) providing the information obtained in (i) to the source of request before releasing the location of other mobile remote units that are further from the source of request.
6) A method further employed in 1 to determine if a portable mobile remote unit is within a specific geographic boundary defined by the system comprising:
i) receiving at the PRU geographic boundary information and velocity information, within which the location of the PRU should be disclosed;
ii) establishing at the PRU if the PRU is within said geographic boualdary and, if the velocity of the PRU is within the values prescribed by the network;
(iii) if the result of (ii) is yes, forwarding the location of the PRU to the system;
i) receiving at the PRU geographic boundary information and velocity information, within which the location of the PRU should be disclosed;
ii) establishing at the PRU if the PRU is within said geographic boualdary and, if the velocity of the PRU is within the values prescribed by the network;
(iii) if the result of (ii) is yes, forwarding the location of the PRU to the system;
7. A method according to claim 1 utilized to further limit the provision of PRU
location to the network comprising:
obtaining at the network, exclusion region information within which the PRU
should not provide its location the network;
determining that the PRU is not in the exclusion region before providing the location of the remote unit to the network.
location to the network comprising:
obtaining at the network, exclusion region information within which the PRU
should not provide its location the network;
determining that the PRU is not in the exclusion region before providing the location of the remote unit to the network.
8) The method of claim 1 wherein the request from the wireless consumer may also include information indicating that only the identity of portable mobile remote units that are tracking the movement of the wireless consumer over time be provided and the step (iv) may further include verifying that the PRU responding with location information within said geographic boundary has maintained a relative distance to the wireless consumer over time;
9. A method for determining that a first portable remote unit associated with a network is being tracked by at least a second portable remote unit that is in motion with the first portable remote unit over a tracking period comprising;
obtaining the location of the first portable mobile remote unit at intervals during said tracking period;
obtaining the location of the at least second portable communication. unit that is within a specified geographic boundary of the first portable remote unit at intervals during said tracking period.;
verifying whether the first portable remote unit and second portable :remote unit have maintained proximity during the tracking period;
forwarding the result of the verification to the network at the end of the tracking period.
obtaining the location of the first portable mobile remote unit at intervals during said tracking period;
obtaining the location of the at least second portable communication. unit that is within a specified geographic boundary of the first portable remote unit at intervals during said tracking period.;
verifying whether the first portable remote unit and second portable :remote unit have maintained proximity during the tracking period;
forwarding the result of the verification to the network at the end of the tracking period.
10. The verification technique employed in the method of claim 9 comprising:
retaining a tracking list of all second portable mobile units that are within a pre-specified radius or region of the first unit at the first tracking interval;
eliminating or removing at subsequent tracking intervals, all second units in the tracking list that do not report their location during a subsequent tracking interval;
validating at the end of the tracking period that at least a second unit exist in the tracking list and a minimum distance was traveled by the first unit.
retaining a tracking list of all second portable mobile units that are within a pre-specified radius or region of the first unit at the first tracking interval;
eliminating or removing at subsequent tracking intervals, all second units in the tracking list that do not report their location during a subsequent tracking interval;
validating at the end of the tracking period that at least a second unit exist in the tracking list and a minimum distance was traveled by the first unit.
11. Another verification technique employed in the method of claim 9 comprising:
i) maintaining a list of second portable mobile remote units that provided their location during said tracking period;
ii) from the list of (i), forwarding the location of the second portable mobile remote unit to the network upon determination that said second portable mobile remote unit maintained close proximity to the first mobile remote during the tracking period.
i) maintaining a list of second portable mobile remote units that provided their location during said tracking period;
ii) from the list of (i), forwarding the location of the second portable mobile remote unit to the network upon determination that said second portable mobile remote unit maintained close proximity to the first mobile remote during the tracking period.
12. A technique according to claim 9, utilized to determine if a mobile remote unit is within a prescribed geographic boundary or within close proximity of a wireless consumer comprising:
obtaining radii information of the geographic boundary from the network;
obtaining geographic information describing the origin of the geographic boundary;
calculating the angle of inclination of the remote unit to the geographic boundary origin;
calculating from the angle of inclination the distance between the remote unit and the geographic boundary origin;
comparing the radii of the geographic boundary to the calculated distance to establish if the remote unit lies in the geographic boundary.
obtaining radii information of the geographic boundary from the network;
obtaining geographic information describing the origin of the geographic boundary;
calculating the angle of inclination of the remote unit to the geographic boundary origin;
calculating from the angle of inclination the distance between the remote unit and the geographic boundary origin;
comparing the radii of the geographic boundary to the calculated distance to establish if the remote unit lies in the geographic boundary.
13. A technique employed by the method according to claim 9 to determine if a remote unit is within a specified geographic boundary or close proximity to a wireless consumer comprising:
obtaining from the network geographic information describing the geographic boundary;
estimating at the remote unit if the current location of the remote unit is within the geographic boundary obtained at the network.
obtaining from the network geographic information describing the geographic boundary;
estimating at the remote unit if the current location of the remote unit is within the geographic boundary obtained at the network.
14. A technique utilized in the method according to claim 9, to terminate requesting at each interval, the location of mobile remote units within close proximity of the wireless consumer comprising;
i) keeping track of the time since the first request for tracking units within proximity of the wireless consumer was enacted by the system;
ii) validating that the elapsed time at each interval when a request is to be made does not exceed the total time set for establishing tracking in the system;
iii) requesting that all mobile remote units within close proximity of the wireless consumer divulge their location if the result of the validation of (ii) is true.
i) keeping track of the time since the first request for tracking units within proximity of the wireless consumer was enacted by the system;
ii) validating that the elapsed time at each interval when a request is to be made does not exceed the total time set for establishing tracking in the system;
iii) requesting that all mobile remote units within close proximity of the wireless consumer divulge their location if the result of the validation of (ii) is true.
15) A communication system for providing the location of portable mobile remote units in a geographic region to a wireless consumer requesting that information comprising:
i) means for the wireless consumer to define and forward to system, geographic boundary information describing the region where the location of portable mobile remote units are required by the wireless consumer;
ii) means to receive and process at the system said geographic boundary information defined by the wireless consumer;
iii) means to locate from the system, portable mobile remote units that exist in the geographic boundary of (ii) , said portable mobile remote units capable of establishing a global location at the network;
iv) means to provide to the wireless consumer the location of a portable mobile remote unit that exist in the geographic boundary defined by the wireless consumer.
i) means for the wireless consumer to define and forward to system, geographic boundary information describing the region where the location of portable mobile remote units are required by the wireless consumer;
ii) means to receive and process at the system said geographic boundary information defined by the wireless consumer;
iii) means to locate from the system, portable mobile remote units that exist in the geographic boundary of (ii) , said portable mobile remote units capable of establishing a global location at the network;
iv) means to provide to the wireless consumer the location of a portable mobile remote unit that exist in the geographic boundary defined by the wireless consumer.
16) The system of claim 15, the portable mobile remote unit having means to receive geographic boundary information, within which the location of the PRU should be disclosed and also having means to establish if the PRU is within said geographic boundary before forwarding the location of the PRU to the system;
17) The system of claim 15, having means to split wider geographic boundaries defined by a wireless consumer into sub regions and further means to recursively request for the location of PRUs within each sub region until a PRU responds with location information;
18. The system of claim 15, a portable mobile remote unit having means to establish its velocity at the network and having means to further determine that, its velocity is within the network's prescribed velocity before divulging its location to the network.
19. The system of claim 15, a portable mobile remote unit having means to further determine if location disclosure for the remote unit is prohibited at a specific geographic boundary before sending its location to the network.
20. A communication system comprising:
(i) a network of communication units;
(ii) at least a first communication unit and at least a second communication unit able to provide location information to the network for a time while in motion;
(iii) means to request whether the at least second communication unit is tracking the at least first communication unit.
(iv) means to determine from said location provided (ii) that the at least first and second communication unit maintained proximity while in motion during said time;
(vi) means to provide result of the determination (iv) to the requestor of (iii);
(i) a network of communication units;
(ii) at least a first communication unit and at least a second communication unit able to provide location information to the network for a time while in motion;
(iii) means to request whether the at least second communication unit is tracking the at least first communication unit.
(iv) means to determine from said location provided (ii) that the at least first and second communication unit maintained proximity while in motion during said time;
(vi) means to provide result of the determination (iv) to the requestor of (iii);
21. The system of claim 20 having means to maintain an inventory of all second communication units that are providing their location within proximity to the first communication unit during said time and having further means to determine and report a second communication unit in said inventory that has maintained proximity to the first communication unit during said time;
22) The system of claim 20 having means to abort the tracking request process if it is determined that either the first or the communication units are not in motion or the tracking period has expired;
23) The system of claim 20 the second communication unit able to establish that it is within a prescribed geographic boundary before divulging its location information to the network;
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