Patent ID: 7941162
Filing Date: 2011-05-10
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer readable storage medium containing a program element for execution by a computing device to implement a method in a communications network adapted to provide alert-based services defined for a plurality of mobile stations and a variety of alert conditions, the program element including: program code means for receiving updated location data about the mobile stations; program code means for determining an expected earliest future time at which at least one alert condition is capable of being met by a particular mobile station; program code means for outputting a data element indicative of a requirement to schedule a request to obtain updated location data about the particular mobile station in advance of the expected earliest future time; program code means for determining, on the basis of the updated location data about the particular mobile station, for which alert-based services, if any, at least one corresponding alert condition is met by the particular mobile station; and program code means for generating a trigger to fire an alert associated with each alert-based service for which at least one corresponding alert condition has been met by the mobile station.