Patent ID: 7266395
Filing Date: 2007-09-04
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication device, comprising: a receiver object that receives network location information from a wireless network and receives proximity alert information from an awareness server via the wireless network; an alerter object that generates an alert output in response to the proximity alert information; and an updater object that generates a status update message for the awareness server that includes the network location information and also includes a unique identifier for the wireless communication device; wherein the awareness server compares the network location information from the wireless communication device with network location data for other wireless communication devices to identify one or more of the other wireless communication devices that are located within a predetermined proximity from the wireless communication device and transmits the proximity alert information to the wireless communication device in response to identifying the one or more other wireless communication devices; wherein the network location information identifies a wireless base station to which the wireless communication device was last reported to be in communication with.