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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2015

Filed:

Jan. 10, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

John R. Dingler, Dallas, GA (US);

David C. Olds, Marietta, GA (US);

James R. Rudd, Charlotte, NC (US);

Matthew B. Trevathan, Roswell, GA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/20 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/20 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A location-based service system for providing messages to a recipient and, in particular, to transmission methods and systems for providing location data of a device to a location-based service system. A method of updating a location of a mobile device includes determining a location of the mobile device and, based on Internet accessibility of the mobile device, transmitting the location via Internet communication when Internet access is available and via SS7 communication when Internet access is unavailable.


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