Patent ID: 7098795

Claim:
A system for providing notification of a location of a restrained party, the system comprising: a receiver for receiving a restrained party location signal that represents a current location of the restrained party; a data store hosted on a signal control point (SCP) of a telecommunications network, said data store containing location data that represents a specified location and distance data that represents a specified distance from the specified location; an alerting service implemented on a (SCP) of the telecommunications network for determining if the current location of the restrained party is within a specified distance of a specified location, the SCP being a network element in communication with a PSTN and Internet, allowing a user to connect to the alerting service through the PSTN and the Internet; a media server in communication with the alerting service, wherein the media server is notified if the alerting service determines that the current location of the restrained party is within the specified distance of the specified location; the media server generating an alert if the current location of the restrained party is within the specified distance from the specified location, said alert being transmitted on an associated calling line to one or more pieces of terminating equipment.