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Date of Patent:
Oct. 11, 2011

Filed:

Dec. 14, 2009
Applicants:

Lalitha Suryanarayana, Austin, TX (US);

Anil Doradla, Austin, TX (US);

Michael Grannan, Austin, TX (US);

Arunabha Ghosh, Austin, TX (US);

Rias Muhamed, Austin, TX (US);

Inventors:

Lalitha Suryanarayana, Austin, TX (US);

Anil Doradla, Austin, TX (US);

Michael Grannan, Austin, TX (US);

Arunabha Ghosh, Austin, TX (US);

Rias Muhamed, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:

AT&T Intellectual Property I, Atlanta, GA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A location services controller () for locating multimode communication devices (MCDs) () has a communication element () for communicating with two or more communication networks () and MCDs coupled thereto, a memory (), and a processor () for controlling operations thereof. The processor is programmed to request () location information of an MCD from at least two sources selected among a group that can include the MCD and one or more communication networks coupled to the MCD, and determine () from the sources of location information the location of the MCD.


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