Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Network entities, a wireless communication system and a method for collecting data for multiple mobile network operators
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Application No.: US16331637Application Date: 2017-09-01
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Publication No.: US11057860B2Publication Date: 2021-07-06
- Inventor: Neil Ginsburg , James Harrow
- Applicant: ip.access Limited , Neil Ginsburg , James Harrow
- Applicant Address: GB Cambridge; GB Newbury; GB Fulbourn
- Assignee: ip.access Limited,Neil Ginsburg,James Harrow
- Current Assignee: ip.access Limited,Neil Ginsburg,James Harrow
- Current Assignee Address: GB Cambridge; GB Newbury; GB Fulbourn
- Agency: Optimus Patents US, LLC
- Priority: GB1615269 20160908
- International Application: PCT/EP2017/071980 WO 20170901
- International Announcement: WO2018/046402 WO 20180315
- Main IPC: H04W64/00
- IPC: H04W64/00 ; H04W76/11 ; H04W48/10 ; H04W72/04 ; H04W84/04

Abstract:
A method for at least one service provider to collect wireless communication unit location related data for multiple mobile network operators, MNOs. The method comprises, at a base station supporting multiple MNOs: broadcasting on a first frequency only a first public land mobile network identifier, PLMN-ID, of a first MNO at a first instant in time for detection by first wireless communication units associated with the first MNO; receiving location related information from the first wireless communication units associated with the first MNO in response to the broadcast first PLMN-ID; broadcasting on a second frequency only a second PLMN-ID of a second MNO, at a second instant in time for detection by second wireless communication units associated with the second MNO; and receiving location related information from the second wireless communication units associated with the second MNO in response to the broadcast second PLMN-ID.
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- US2161275A Utility shelf for automobiles Public/Granted day:1939-06-06
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