US 6,441,752 B1
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING MOBILE UNITS TRACKING ANOTHER OR WITHIN A PRESCRIBED GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARYGeneral
US 6,441,752 B1
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR LOCATING MOBILE UNITS TRACKING ANOTHER OR WITHIN A PRESCRIBED GEOGRAPHIC BOUNDARY
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
Van Trieu
Art Unit:
2632 Digital and Optical Communications
Agent:
MUNDI FOMUKONG
Inventors:
Mundi Fomukong
Assignee:
Priority:
12/30/00
Filed:
12/30/00
Granted:
08/27/02
Expiration:
12/30/20
Abstract
A mobile location reporting communication system consists of a network of communication sources and targets managed by one or more control stations. 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 the network and that information is provided to the source. In the invention a mobile communication source request for the location of mobile communication targets 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 in the disclosure of mobile targets that have traveled a pre-specified distance with the source while maintaining proximity to the source.