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Article: Washington Inventor Develops Mobile Telephone Location Information Erasing System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- August 16, 2006
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 16 -- Michael Edward Prise of Kirkland, Wash., has developed a method and a system of erasing at least part of the location information stored on a subscriber identity module (SIM) of a mobile phone.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The SIM stores the most recently used service provider in its location information. Either at power down or power up, the location information is erased so during the power up routine, the service provider search schedule will not find a service provider when it first searches the most recently used service provider stored in the location information. In this case, the service provider search routine will appropriately ...