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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:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 22, 2013
Applicant:

Centurylink Intellectual Property Llc, Denver, CO (US);

Inventors:

Robert J. Morrill, Overland Park, KS (US);

Lynn T. Greene, Olathe, KS (US);

Amar Nath Ray, Shawnee, KS (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 11/04 (2006.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/22 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04L 67/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04W 4/22 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for tracking a wireless communications device of a user may include, in response to receiving a request to track the wireless communications device, notifying a plurality of wireless networks of different communications carriers to collect geographic coordinates at which a wireless communications device is located. Geographic coordinates of the wireless communications device may be collected from at least one of the wireless networks and communicated to a requestor for tracking the wireless communications device.


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