Abstract: The present invention provides a method for finding the location of a mobile device user, and using the location to customize the information and to determine the way of delivering such information to the user. The mobile device user may request the information either with an interactive series of one or more requests, or by pre-selecting the type of message to be delivered. The customized information is transmitted only to the mobile device from which the request is originated. It can also be displayed at a public display unit (such as an electronic billboard), sent to a public broadcaster, posted on the Internet, or sent to a fax machine or a modem. The present invention also provides a method for determining traffic density and speed information that can be continuously updated. The traffic information together with a variety of traffic services can be transmitted to mobile devices users, displayed at inanimate devices (such as electronic billboards), publicly boradcasted, or posted on the Internet.

Abstract: A CDMA receiver for measuring spatial signal information corresponding to several user transmitters comprises a bank of coherent receivers coupled to an antenna array, a bank of signal buffers for recording samples of the received signal data, and a bank of I/Q despreaders for despreading selected signal samples. The receiver also comprises a buffer control circuit for selecting active power control groups in the recorded signal samples for despreading, and a despreader control circuit for selecting PN despreading sequences required to despread the selected power groups. Selected data samples from the signal buffers are fed into the despreaders. The output of the despreaders is a set of spatially correlated I/Q data streams divided into temporal frames, where each frame contains active power control groups from different user transmitters.

Abstract: A system for easily and inexpensively distributing real time location information of cellular telephone users to various third party information subscribers comprises an HTTP server machine which maintains a dynamic database of current cellular users. The database has a list of caller entries, where each entry typically comprises a user ID number, such as a phone number, mobile ID number, and/or handset serial ID. The entry also includes, for each user ID number, a user location identifier such as a latitude and longitude, a sector number, a caller or called phone number and/or a street address. The HTTP server is connected to the internet so that registered third party information subscribers have access to the database by means of standard HTTP protocols that ensure authentication and provide encryption for security.