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"Machine for providing a dynamic data base of geographic location information for a plurality of wireless devices and process for making same." Assigned to Traxcell Technologies, it relates to self-optimizing wireless network technology, tracking connections, and mapping device locations.

Key Details

• Technology Focus: Self-optimizing wireless networks, tracking mobile devices, and managing performance data or connection errors.
• Priority Date: Dates back to an original filing from October 2001.
• Legal History: It has been central to major patent infringement lawsuits filed by Traxcell Technologies against large telecom and tech companies like AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, and Nokia.

U.S. Patent No. 9,510,320, titled "Machine for Providing a Dynamic Database of Geographic Location Information for a Plurality of Wireless Devices and Process for Making Same," is a patent focused on self-optimizing wireless radio frequency (RF) networks, tracking device locations, and tuning network performance. It was issued on November 29, 2016, and assigned to Traxcell Technologies, LLC.

Core Technology & Function

• Location Tracking: Routinely locates mobile phones and wireless devices connected to a radio-frequency network.
• Performance Data Storing: Gathers and stores connection performance metrics alongside geographic coordinates.
• Network Tuning: Uses location and performance data to trigger load adjustments and prevent network overloads or service drops.

Legal & Litigation History

Part of a larger patent family (sharing a 2001 priority date) invented by Mark Reed.

Subject to extensive patent infringement lawsuits brought by Traxcell against major telecommunications and tech companies—including Samsung, Sprint, AT&T, Verizon, Huawei, and Nokia—regarding cellular network management and self-optimizing network (SON) tools.

U.S. Patent No. 9,888,353 is a utility patent titled "Mobile wireless communications system and method with hierarchical location determination" that was issued on February 6, 2018, and assigned to Traxcell Technologies, LLC.

Key Details of the Patent

• Assignee: Traxcell Technologies, LLC
• Issue Date: February 6, 2018
• Primary Focus: Managing, processing, and transferring geographical tracking data, user settings, and time data for wireless devices across communication networks using hierarchical database structures.
• Technology Area: Wireless communication networks and location-based services.

Context and Usage

Function: It deals with methods for mobile devices and networks to handle positioning data and route/location information efficiently.

Litigation History: This patent (along with related family patents held by the same entity) has been involved in various telecommunication and tech-sector patent infringement assertions regarding location-tracking technology.

U.S. Patent No. 9,642,024 is a patent titled "Mobile wireless communications system and method with corrective action responsive to communications fault detection." Issued on May 2, 2017 and owned by Traxcell Technologies, it covers self-optimizing wireless network technology that tracks device locations and connection performance to fix network faults.

Core Technology

• Tracking and Monitoring: Continuously tracks the geographic location and connection performance of mobile wireless devices linked to a network.
• Fault Detection: Compares active connection data against expected performance metrics to spot communication errors or faults.
• Corrective Action: Automatically suggests or executes network fixes when a drop in performance or a connection fault is identified

Legal and Industry Context

• Inventor: Invented by Mark Reed as part of a family of related patents sharing a 2001 priority date.
• Infringement Lawsuits: The patent was central to multiple high-profile patent infringement lawsuits filed by Traxcell against major telecommunications and tech companies—including Verizon, Sprint, Nokia, and Huawei—over wireless network optimization systems.

"Wireless network and method with communications error trend analysis." Owned by Traxcell Technologies, it covers technology for tracking mobile devices on a wireless network, detecting communication errors, generating case files by analyzing error parameters, and comparing them to stored patterns to apply corrective network actions.

Key Technical Features

• Error Detection: Identifies and flags communication faults between mobile devices and cellular or wireless networks.
• Trend Analysis: Creates data case files that evaluate trends and parameters behind network glitches.
• Corrective Action: Matches error trends to known pattern databases to automate or suggest network fixes.

Ownership and Legal Context

• Assignee: Traxcell Technologies, LLC.
• Litigation: The patent has been asserted in various telecom and tech sector infringement lawsuits regarding mobile network performance and wireless communications management (such as cases filed against major carriers).

"Wireless network and method for suggesting corrective action based on performance and controlling access to location information." Issued on June 30, 2020, and assigned to Traxcell Technologies, it covers systems that track mobile device locations and network performance to spot faults and suggest fixes.

Key Features

• Network Monitoring: Tracks connection quality between mobile phones and wireless towers.
• Fault Detection: Compares live data against expected performance benchmarks to find issues.
• Corrective Actions: Automatically suggests fixes when network errors happen.
• Privacy Control: Manages user location sharing via preference flags set on the mobile device.

Legal and Industry Context

• Litigation: The patent has been central to various telecom infringement lawsuits filed by Traxcell Technologies against major cellular carriers like T-Mobile and AT&T.
• Prior Art: The underlying concepts relate heavily to cellular network optimization and location-based services managed by mobile infrastructure.

US Patent No. 10,743,135 B2 is a United States utility patent titled "Wireless Network and Method for Suggesting Corrective Action in Response to Detecting Communications Errors." It was granted on August 11, 2020, and is assigned to Traxcell Technologies, LLC.

Core Technology

• Function: Analyzes mobile wireless device communications and triggers suggested corrective actions when performance or error issues are detected.
• Privacy/Access Control: Includes operations that can block access to a mobile device's location data depending on the status of an access flag maintained within the network.
• Context: Part of a portfolio of network-tuning and optimization patents held by Traxcell Technologies relating to cellular communications performance and error mitigation.

Legal & Industry Context

Litigation: The patent has been cited in various patent infringement lawsuits filed by Traxcell Technologies against major cellular network operators and wireless carriers (such as Verizon/Cellco and T-Mobile) concerning cellular network optimization and performance technologies.

Key Features

• Network Monitoring: Tracks connection quality between mobile phones and wireless towers.
• Fault Detection: Compares live data against expected performance benchmarks to find issues.
• Corrective Actions: Automatically suggests fixes when network errors happen.
• Privacy Control: Manages user location sharing via preference flags set on the mobile device.

Legal and Industry Context

• Litigation: The patent has been central to various telecom infringement lawsuits filed by Traxcell Technologies against major cellular carriers like T-Mobile and AT&T.
• Prior Art: The underlying concepts relate heavily to cellular network optimization and location-based services managed by mobile infrastructure.

U.S. Patent No. 9,549,388, titled "Mobile wireless device providing off-line and on-line geographic navigation information," is an intellectual property asset issued on January 17, 2017. It covers systems that allow mobile devices to run both connected and local-database navigation using network-based traffic and location data.

Core Technology

• Combines online and offline map navigation.
• Uses cellular network data to track device location and calculate trip duration or traffic.
• Adjusts routes based on traffic congestion measured by wireless networks.

Legal History

• Owned by the holding firm Traxcell Technologies.
• Used in patent infringement lawsuits against major tech companies like Apple and network providers over map and location services.

U.S. Patent No. 10,390,175 is a utility patent titled "Mobile wireless device tracking and notification system". It was issued on August 20, 2019, and assigned to Traxcell Technologies, LLC.

Key Features

• Active and Passive Tracking Modes: The system tracks mobile wireless devices in either a passive mode (triggered by fault detection to generate a case file) or an active mode (where users track devices by sector or specific device identifier).
• Notifications: It generates automated alerts when a tracked device experiences a specific network fault or enters a pre-defined geographic region.
• Network Context: The technology belongs to a portfolio of mobile network optimization and location-based tracking patents held by Traxcell Technologies.

"Mobile wireless device providing off-line and on-line geographic navigation information," issued in October 2020. It covers mobile devices using both online network data and local databases for routing, adjusted via traffic congestion metrics.

Core Technology

• Hybrid Navigation: Combines real-time online map data with an offline local database on a mobile device.
• Traffic Routing: Uses wireless network measurements of traffic congestion to optimize route selection and trip duration.
• Privacy Controls: Includes features allowing users to enable or disable device tracking.

Litigation and Ownership

• Owner: Owned by Traxcell Technologies, LLC, a non-practicing entity (often labeled a patent troll).
• Lawsuits: Used aggressively in numerous federal lawsuits against major technology, mapping, delivery, and mobile companies (including Apple, Google, Verizon, Lyft, and Grubhub) targeting mobile app navigation and location-tracking features.
• Legal Challenges: Extensively challenged in court and through the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) by companies seeking to invalidate the patent or secure non-infringement judgments.