Patent ID: 9681413
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06Q,H04B,H04K

Claim:
1. A system for tracking mobile subscribers, the system comprising: (a) an aircraft having an on-board virtual Base Transmitter Station (BTS) that emulates a stationary BTS and is configured to communicate with mobile devices; (b) the virtual BTS including a processor running software for managing communication with the mobile devices and receiving identifiers of the mobile devices; (c) the aircraft also including an antenna for communication with the mobile devices; and (d) the processor locating a specific subscriber based on radio signals received by the antenna and based on the identifiers, and transmitting the location of the specific subscriber to a server, wherein the virtual BTS jams only those channels used by the stationary BTS in order to force the mobile devices to switch to the virtual BTS.