Patent ID: 6441752
Filing Date: 2002-08-27
Classification: B60R,B60W,G08G

Abstract:
A method for providing the location of a portable mobile remote unit in a geographic region of a wireless network to a wireless consumer requesting the location of portable mobile remote units that are maintaining close proximity to the wireless consumer in the geographic region comprising:i) obtaining the location of the wireless consumer at intervals over a period of time; ii) requesting at each interval, at the network, that all mobile remote units within close proximity of the wireless consumer disclose their location to the network; iii) maintaining a list of mobile remote units that provided their location at each interval after the request of (ii); iv) from the list of (iii), forwarding the location of at least a mobile remote unit to the mobile consumer upon determination that the remote unit maintained close proximity to the mobile consumer over the period of time of (i).