Archive under: March, 2008

Trace a Phone Number With Java!

You can now use an online reverse phone trace service to find out the location of any phone number quickly and easily. In fact, all you need to do is type the phone number you want to find out the details for in the search box provided on the home page and then click on the search button. This will then query a huge database on the backend and return the State & City of where the phone number is located.

This query connects with a huge database of over 30 million (probably more by now) listings which detail such information as the phone number owner’s name and address which is linked to their phone number. This allows you to query the database and bring back the results you need in order to see who owns the phone number.

Doing this will allow you to find out the phone owner details and then have them displayed on a Google map right in front of you. The Google map is programmed in Javascript and is loaded “on the fly” I.E is loaded as the data is provided to it online. The map operates using a web service to link in with Google’s massive data processing facilities to bring back the map all rendered in Java, with a central point focusing on where the number is located.

The user experience is remarkably amazing due, mainly, to the sheer scale and power of the database queries that are taking place. Not only that, but because the maps application is hosted remotely, it does not lag the server with any bottlenecks, which all makes for an amazingly efficient system.

William Beaumont Hospital

The William Beaumont Hospital located in Royal Oak, Michigan, is a regional medical center. The center has two teaching hospitals and a 15,000 strong staff.
There are 2000 doctors, 400 of who come from around 91 surigical and medical specialties. For eleven years it has been listed in the ‘best hospitals list’ of the U.S. News and World Report. Mr. John D Labriola, the Senior Vice President and Hospital Director, is the administrator of the hospital. Equipped with over one thousand beds, the hospital offers healthcare services mainly in general and cardiac intensive care, general medicine and surgical care, open heart surgery, pediatric intensive care, pediatric medical and surgical care, obstetrics and orthopedics. The William Beaumont Hospital is a member of the Council of Teaching Hospitals and is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations.

Using Java on a mobile phone….

Using a reverse cell phone lookup tool allows you to find out who called by pulling their name, address and some other background information from a huge database. It works by allowing you to type the phone number you wish to find the details for into a search box and then searching the database upon hitting the search button.

This then allows the system to use a direct connection to the database to pull some basic information including their line type, State and City. This “basic” search is totally free and is displayed, with Java, by Google maps. It is able to best pinpoint the city on the map because it finds the longitude and latitude of the city with the Google maps API and then uses this data to hone the maps software into the location where the phone number is located.

Doing this brings up the basic information for the owner of the phone number, but after that it allows you to progress further by linking through to a certified broker of this information which means you can find out their real name and current address, etc. It’s all coded to be as smooth and streamlined as possible and, although there are a few small bugs, it seems to work really well.