Position determination of a wireless device

• US 10,667,236 B2
• Filed: 06/24/2019
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 12/04/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Original Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson
• Inventors: Crisci, Giuseppe, Busin, Ake
• Primary Examiner(s): Phuong, Dai
• Application Number:
  US16/450,055
• Publication Number:
  US 20190313360A1
• Time in Patent Office: 337 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/0022 for transferring data sessions between adjacent core network technologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/00224 between packet switched [PS] and circuit switched [CS] network technologies, e.g. circuit switched fallback [CSFB]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/14 Reselecting a network or an air interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 36/144 over a different radio air interface technology
• 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 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

There is provided a method for position determination of a wireless device. The method is performed by the wireless device. The method comprises detecting, whilst being operatively connected to a source radio access technology (RAT) an indicator requiring a handover of the wireless device to a target RAT. The method comprises starting a positioning detection procedure of the wireless device before being handed over to the target RAT, the positioning detection procedure involving processing of positioning measurements. The method comprises keeping the positioning measurements of the positioning detection procedure whilst the wireless device being handed over from the source RAT to the target RAT. The method comprises continuing the positioning detection procedure using the positioning measurements whilst being operatively connected to the target RAT.

Claims

1. A method for position determination of a wireless device, the method being performed by a mobility management node, the method comprising:

detecting an indicator of a wireless device being operatively connected to a source radio access technology (RAT) the indicator requiring a handover of the wireless device to a target RAT and further requiring a position of the wireless device to be determined in case the mobility management node detects an Extended Service Request for mobile originating Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) indicating that a purpose is an emergency call;

in response thereto;

sending a Location Services Application Protocol (LCS-AP) location request message to an evolved serving mobile location center (E-SMLC) of the wireless device; and

then

sending, upon fulfillment of a criterion relating to the indicator of the wireless device, a LCS-AP location abort request message to the E-SMLC.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the indicator is an emergency call indicator.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

monitoring transmission of assisted GNSS (A-GNSS) assistance data items from the E-SMLC to the wireless device; and

wherein the criterion is fulfilled when a configured number of the data items have been sent from the E-SMLC to the wireless device.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the criterion is fulfilled when a configured time interval starting at the detection of the indicator has finished.

5. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

sending an S1-AP context modification request comprising a circuit switched fallback indicator to the source RAT upon having sent the LCS-AP location abort request.

6. A mobility management node for position determination of a wireless device, the mobility management node comprising a processor configured to:

detect an indicator of a wireless device being operatively connected to a source radio access technology (RAT) the indicator requiring a handover of the wireless device to a target RAT and further requiring a position of the wireless device to be determined in case the mobility management node detects an Extended Service Request for mobile originating Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) indicating that a purpose is an emergency call;

in response thereto;

send a Location Services Application Protocol (LCS-AP) location request message to an evolved serving mobile location center (E-SMLC) of the wireless device; and

then

send, upon fulfillment of a criterion relating to the indicator of the wireless device, a LCS-AP location abort request message to the E-SMLC.

7. The mobility management node according to claim 6, wherein the mobility management node is a Mobility Management Entity (MME).

8. A nontransitory computer-readable medium comprising a computer program for position determination of a wireless device, the computer program comprising computer program code which, when run on a processor of a mobility management node, causes the processor to:

detect an indicator of a wireless device being operatively connected to a source radio access technology (RAT) the indicator requiring a handover of the wireless device to a target RAT and further requiring a position of the wireless device to be determined in case the mobility management node detects an Extended Service Request for mobile originating Circuit Switched Fallback (CSFB) indicating that a purpose is an emergency call;

in response thereto;

send a Location Services Application Protocol (LCS-AP) location request message to an evolved serving mobile location center, E-SMLC, of the wireless device; and

then

send, upon fulfillment of a criterion relating to the indicator of the wireless device, a LCS-AP location abort request message to the E-SMLC.