Patent ID: 8447266

Claim:
A method for providing a service for monitoring the movement of a subscriber to a respective subscriber's destination, the subscriber arriving at the destination at a specific time, amongst the coverage areas of mobile cellular communication (MCC) networks, comprising the steps of: (a) accepting an application, the application including application data and application parameters, from an initiator of the application for the monitoring service through the Internet using a specialized website, through the signal Transmission System 7 (SS7) using the short message service (SMS), or the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) supplementary services request protocol; (b) processing the application data and verifying the accuracy of the application parameters; (c) conducting a monitoring service to provide monitoring results; (d) processing the monitoring results; and (e) informing the recipients about the monitoring results, wherein networks of Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM) and Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) standards are used, wherein verification of the accuracy of the application parameters comprising: checking the presence of a subscriber's destination, time of the subscriber's arrival at the destination, the subscriber's telephone number, and a contact address of at least one recipient, and wherein monitoring comprising: determine a monitoring schedule on the basis of the application parameters; conducting the monitoring procedure at a specified time in accordance with the determined monitoring schedule; sending a short SMS message to the subscriber's telephone number at the specified time; awaiting subsequently a message signal from the subscriber's home location registry confirming the subscriber's registration in a new MCC network and then requesting for the address of the current serving visiting location registry associated with the new MCC network; using a home database to retrieve the name of the geographic location at the address of the current serving visiting location registry; verifying during the processing of the monitoring results whether the name of the scheduled subscriber's destination is identical to the name of the geographic place obtained as a result of monitoring, and whether the schedule time of arrival given in the application is identical to the registration time of the subscriber's mobile terminal in the new MCC network; and informing the at least one recipient about the monitoring results through the SMS short message service, or the MMS multimedia message service, or the e-mail electronic mail service, or the HTTP hypertext transfer protocol.