Securely conveying location and other information in advanced networks

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11477638-B2
Application number	US-202017028480-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 22, 2020
Priority date	Dec 5, 2018
Publication date	Oct 18, 2022
Grant date	Oct 18, 2022

Abstract

Facilitating secure conveyance of location information and other information in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise transforming, at a chipset level of the device, information indicative of a location of the device into a binary representation of the information indicative of the location of the device. The operations can also comprise embedding the binary representation of the information indicative of the location of the device into a message. Further, the operations can comprise facilitating a transmission of the message and the binary representation of the information indicative of the location of the device to a network device of a communications network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
selecting, by a user equipment comprising a processor, a message from a group of messages, wherein the selecting is based on an occurrence frequency of a transmission of the message being determined to satisfy a defined occurrence frequency level;
embedding, by the user equipment, a binary representation of information indicative of a location of the user equipment in least significant bits of the message; and
transmitting, by the user equipment to network equipment, the message and the binary representation of information indicative of the location of the user equipment.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
prior to the transmitting, converting, by the user equipment, information indicative of the location of the user equipment into the binary representation.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the converting comprises translating location information into the information indicative of the location at a radio chipset level of the user equipment.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message is a first message, and wherein the method further comprises:
prior to the transmitting, embedding, by the user equipment, the binary representation via steganography, wherein the steganography facilitates concealing the first message in a second message.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the message is a layer 2 embedded message.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
converting, by the user equipment, ranging information into the information indicative of the location of the user equipment, wherein the ranging information is measured timing offsets of cell sites.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the transmitting comprises transmitting the message and the binary representation via a fifth generation network communication protocol.

8. A system, comprising:
a processor; and
a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
dividing a message into a first group of bits and a second group of bits, wherein the message comprises information indicative of a location of a user equipment; and
determining the location of the user equipment based on a determination that the second group of bits comprise a synchronization signal.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the first group of bits in the message are least significant bits of the message.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the operations further comprise:
determining that the least significant bits constitute a preamble that indicates the information indicative of the location of the user equipment is included in the second group of bits.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the determining comprises translating the information indicative of the location of the user equipment to a geographic location of the user equipment.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the operations further comprise:
prior to the dividing, receiving a transmission that comprises a first message embedded in a second message, wherein the first message comprises information indicative of the location of the user equipment.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the first message and the second message are received signal code power messages, and wherein the first message and the second message are received from the user equipment via a fifth generation network communication protocol.

14. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
embedding a preamble and a binary representation of information indicative of a location of first network equipment into a message directed to second network equipment; and
facilitating a transmission of the message that comprise the preamble and the binary representation to the second network equipment.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the embedding comprises embedding the binary representation into a group of least significant bits of the message, and wherein the preamble comprises a synchronization signal of bits.

16. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the operations further comprise:
prior to the embedding, receiving the information indicative of the location of the first network equipment from a radio beacon within a vicinity of the first network equipment.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the radio beacon is received from a near field communication enabled device via a near field communications network link.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the radio beacon is received from a Wi-Fi enabled device via a Wi-Fi communications network link.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the radio beacon is received from a Bluetooth enabled device via a Bluetooth communications network link.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the facilitating comprises facilitating the transmission of the message via a new radio network communication protocol.

Assignees

• At & T Ip I Lp

Inventors

• Austin Mark D
• Meredith Sheldon

Classifications

• H04W72/543

  based on requested quality, e.g. QoS · CPC title

• H04W12/63

  Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent · CPC title

• H04W12/03 Primary

  Protecting confidentiality, e.g. by encryption · CPC title

• G01S5/0027

  of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title