Cell Loc Awarded Patent Claim on Location Content Delivery

The U.S. patent office has conditionally allowed Cell-Loc Inc. (Toronto, Canada) to claim the delivery of handset-based wireless location content and services over the Internet as its property, regardless of technological method employed. This same patent application has been filed worldwide.

Examples of handset-based wireless location systems include Enhanced Global Positioning System such as Wireless Assisted GPS and Enhanced Observed Time Difference (E-OTD) such as Cursor.

This doesn't affect the firms gathering the information, but those companies that want to offer that information to customers via a Web site will have to deal with Cel-Loc, said company officials.

Cel-Loc also reports that it has a patent application pending in the U.S. patent office where it claims the delivery of network-based wireless location content and services over the Internet as its property, regardless of technological method employed. This same patent application has been filed worldwide.

Examples of network-based wireless location systems include Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA), Angle of Arrival (AOA), and Radio Camera.

Edited by Ellen Jensen