Patent ID: 9622032
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method associated with a provider of presence related services and a mobile station that stores in a memory first checking data and uses the first checking data to determine whether or not a defining signal received from a radio communication defining device is a distinctive defining signal, the distinctive defining signal at least partly defines a special area by its coverage, the method comprising: one or more servers of a provider of presence related services receiving from the mobile station via a mobile telephone network an updating signal that identifies the mobile station's presence in the special area, the provider of presence related services being different than the mobile telephone network; and storing in the one or more servers a parameters database having an operating parameter whose value is determined at least in part by the updating signal received from the mobile station; and sending from the one or more servers to the mobile station second checking data different from the first checking data to modify the special area.