Location Gateway Cross-Network Protocol Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current location-based services for mobile devices are limited by carrier-specific protocols and technologies, preventing seamless use across different networks and geographical regions, which hinders the development and growth of universal applications.
Innovation Solution
A gateway system that facilitates inter-network location request communications by identifying and translating requests between various networks and technologies, allowing location information to be shared across multiple carriers and geographical areas.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If carrier-specific protocols and technologies are used for location-based services, then each carrier can maintain its own network standards and control, but location-based services cannot be used seamlessly across different networks and geographical regions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a gateway as an intermediary component that receives location requests from one carrier's network, translates them into the appropriate protocol format, and forwards them to the target carrier's network. This mediator approach enables cross-network location-based services without requiring direct compatibility between different carrier protocols, thus resolving the contradiction between adaptability and complexity.
2Adaptability or versatility
If proprietary location-based platforms are used within each carrier's network, then each carrier can optimize for its own network performance, but other carriers cannot provide location-based services on its network
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway is designed with multi-functionality to handle multiple carrier protocols and location-based service types simultaneously. It can translate between different proprietary platforms while maintaining the core location service functionality, allowing universal access to location-based services across carrier boundaries without sacrificing individual carrier network optimization.
3Ease of operation
If users are limited to their mobile carrier's network for location-based services, then carrier network security and control are maintained, but users cannot use location services across multiple carriers or geographical regions
Solution Approach 1:
The gateway acts as a reliable intermediary that ensures protocol compatibility between different carriers while maintaining security controls. It translates location requests between carriers in a controlled manner, allowing users to access location-based services across multiple carriers and geographical regions while maintaining the reliability needed for secure carrier network operations.
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AI summary
A system for utilizing a location-based application across a plurality of networks. A target mobile device operates within a target network of the plurality of networks. A requesting device operates within a requesting network of the plurality of networks. The requesting device transmits a location request for a location of the target mobile device utilizing a location-based service application. A gateway operatively communicates with the requesting network and target network. The gateway receives the location request and determines the target network and communication and location technologies utilized by the target network and transmits the request to the target network utilizing the communication location technology for extraction of the location information. The gateway extracts the location information of the target mobile device and transmits the location of the target mobile device to the requesting device for use with the location-based service application.