Enabling exchange of location and other status information between prose users

• US 10,534,932 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2015
• Issued: 01/14/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc. (InterDigital, Inc.)
• Inventors: Wang, Guanzhou, Canonne-Velasquez, Loic, Ahmad, Saad, Watfa, Mahmoud, Karampatsis, Dimitrios
• Primary Examiner(s): Zhao, Don G
• Application Number:
  US15/516,337
• Publication Number:
  US 20170337394A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,565 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/082 using revocation of authorisation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/088 using filters or firewalls
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/042 Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems

Abstract

Location and other status information may be communicated between Proximity Service (ProSe) users. A ProSe function may retrieve a ProSe WTRU'"'"'s location data from SLP and provide it to a monitoring WTRU via a ProSe discovery procedure or EPC-level ProSe discovery procedure. A ProSe function may retrieve a ProSe WTRU'"'"'s location data from a ProSe WTRU and provide it to monitoring WTRUs via a ProSe discovery procedure. A ProSe WTRU may broadcast its location and/or other status information in a discovery message. A ProSe function may encrypt the location and/or other status information for encryption before broadcast. A ProSe WTRU may send its location and/or other status information via a user plane to another ProSe WTRU or ProSe group. A ProSe function may verify whether a WTRU is permitted to disclose and/or process information (e.g., location information) and may indicate to a WTRU whether to disclose information, e.g., before the information is disclosed, and/or whether to process the information.

Claims

1. A method for communicating status information, the method comprising:

receiving a match report from a first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) at a proximity service (ProSe) function, the match report comprising an indication that location information was received, the location information being associated with a second WTRU;

determining whether the first WTRU is authorized to use the location information associated with the second WTRU; and

if the first WTRU is authorized to use the location information associated with the second WTRU, sending a match report acknowledgement to the first WTRU, the match report acknowledgement comprising location authorization information associated with the second WTRU, the location authorization information permitting the first WTRU to pass the location information associated with the second WTRU to an application in the first WTRU.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the location information from a secure user plane location (SUPL) location platform (SLP).

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising using an evolved packet core (EPC) level ProSe discovery procedure to obtain the location information associated with the second WTRU.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information is sent to the first WTRU in a discovery message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the location information is encrypted.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining whether the first WTRU is authorized to use the location information associated with the second WTRU based on a home subscriber server (HSS) subscription.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising requesting authorization from a ProSe application server (PAS) for the location information to be used by the first WTRU.

8. A public land mobile network (PLMN) device comprising:

a memory to store processor-executable instructions; and

a processor to execute the processor-executable instructions to;

receive a match report from a first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) at a proximity service (ProSe) function, the match report comprising an indication that location information was received, the location information being associated with a second WTRU;

determine whether the first WTRU is authorized to use the location information associated with the second WTRU; and

if the first WTRU is authorized to use the location information associated with the second WTRU, send a match report acknowledgement to the first WTRU, the match report acknowledgement comprising location authorization information associated with the second WTRU, the location authorization information permitting the first WTRU to pass the location information associated with the second WTRU to an application in the first WTRU.

9. The PLMN device of claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to receive the location information from a secure user plane location (SUPL) location platform (SLP).

10. The PLMN device of claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to use an evolved packet core (EPC) level ProSe discovery procedure to obtain the location information.

11. The PLMN device of claim 8, wherein the location information is sent to the first WTRU in a discovery message or using a PC5 reference point.

12. The PLMN device of claim 8, wherein the location information is encrypted.

13. The PLMN device of claim 8, wherein the processor is configured to determine whether the first WTRU is authorized to use the location information based on a home subscriber server (HSS) subscription.

14. The PLMN device of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to request authorization from a ProSe application server (PAS) for the location information to be used by the first WTRU.

15. A first wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) comprising:

a processor configured to;

send a match report to a proximity service (ProSe) function, the match report comprising an indication that location information has been received, the location information being associated with a second WTRU;

receive a match report acknowledgement comprising location authorization information associated with the second WTRU on a condition that the second WTRU is authorized to disclose the location information to the first WTRU; and

allow an application in the first WTRU to access the location information associated with the second WTRU based on receiving the location authorization information in the match report acknowledgement.

16. The first WTRU of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to use an evolved packet core (EPC) level discovery procedure to obtain the location information.

17. The first WTRU of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to receive the location information from a secure user plane location (SUPL) location platform.

18. The first WTRU of claim 15, wherein the location information is received by the first WTRU in a discovery message.

19. The first WTRU of claim 15, wherein the location information is received by the first WTRU using a PC5 reference point.

20. The first WTRU of claim 15, wherein the location information is encrypted.