Article: Massachusetts Inventors Develop Location Information Obtaining Apparatus

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 1 -- James W. O'Toole Jr. of Somerville, Mass., and Gang Lu of Framingham, Mass., have developed mechanisms and techniques that provide a system for obtaining and providing location information related to a target device.

According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The system transmits a location request message onto a network towards a target device. Each node in a network, possible including the target device, can respond with a location signature message containing location information associated with a plurality of different location information services. Each location information service provides location information having a different location ...

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