Tasking and reporting method and implementation for wireless appliance location systems
First Claim
1. A method of determining the location of a mobile appliance and providing the location to a mobile positioning location center (MPLC) in a wireless communication system having plural base stations for communicating with the mobile appliance and a base station controller for managing the plural base stations, comprising the steps of:
- (a) placing a call request from a mobile appliance;
(b) processing the call request at the base station controller using a plurality of interfaces defined by a first predetermined communications protocol standard;
(c) detecting a call of interest by monitoring one of the plurality of interfaces;
(d) retrieving the call request information for the detected call of interest;
(e) identifying the mobile appliance to be located from the retrieved call and channel assignment request information;
(f) determining the location of the identified mobile appliance;
(g) reporting the determined location of the identified mobile appliance to the MPLC using a second predetermined communications protocol standard, where the first and second predetermined communication protocol standards are not the same communications protocol standard.
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Abstract
A system and method for determining the location of a mobile appliance where the tasking of the system to determine the location of the mobile appliance utilizes a first communications protocol standard and the reporting of the location of the mobile appliance utilizes a second communications protocol standard, where the first and second communication protocol standards are not the same and can include any of the commonly used communication protocol standards including TIA defined standards, ETSI standards, and SMR/ESMR defined standards.
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25 Claims
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1. A method of determining the location of a mobile appliance and providing the location to a mobile positioning location center (MPLC) in a wireless communication system having plural base stations for communicating with the mobile appliance and a base station controller for managing the plural base stations, comprising the steps of:
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(a) placing a call request from a mobile appliance;
(b) processing the call request at the base station controller using a plurality of interfaces defined by a first predetermined communications protocol standard;
(c) detecting a call of interest by monitoring one of the plurality of interfaces;
(d) retrieving the call request information for the detected call of interest;
(e) identifying the mobile appliance to be located from the retrieved call and channel assignment request information;
(f) determining the location of the identified mobile appliance;
(g) reporting the determined location of the identified mobile appliance to the MPLC using a second predetermined communications protocol standard, where the first and second predetermined communication protocol standards are not the same communications protocol standard. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. In a wireless communications system having (a) plural base stations for communicating with a mobile appliance using a first predetermined protocol standard requiring the mobile appliance to transmit communication signals to the base stations, and having (b) a mobile appliance location determining system using a second predetermined protocol standard requiring the mobile appliance to transmit a predetermined location signal to the base stations to thereby determine the location of the mobile appliance, the improvement wherein the location of the mobile appliance is determined from the transmitted communication signals rather than from the transmitted predetermined location signal.
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6. A mobile appliance location determining system comprising:
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a mobile appliance;
plural base stations for communication with the mobile appliance using an air interface defined by a first predetermined protocol standard;
a base station controller operably connected to said plural base stations by a first wireline interface defined by said first predetermined communications protocol standard;
positioning determining equipment (PDE) operably connected to said first wireline interface for receiving information from said plural base stations and for determining the location of the mobile appliance as a function of the information received via said wireline interface;
a mobile positioning location center generally connected to said PDE by a second wireline interface defined by a second predetermined protocol standard for receiving said determined location therefrom, said second predetermined protocol standard differing from said first predetermined protocol standard. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. In a wireless communication system having:
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a first mobile appliance;
a first plurality of base stations for communicating with said first mobile appliance using a first predetermined communications protocol standard and having a first location determining means for determining the location of said first mobile appliance;
a second mobile appliance;
a second plurality of base stations for communicating with said second mobile appliance using a second predetermined communications protocol standard and having a second location determining means for determining the location of said second mobile appliance;
the improvement wherein said first and second location determining means are the same means and wherein said first and second predetermined protocol standards are not the same communications protocol standard. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A method of determining the geographic location of a mobile appliance in a wireless communication system having plural base stations for communicating with the mobile appliance using plural open interfaces defined by a first predetermined protocol standard, comprising the steps of:
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(a) tasking the wireless communication system to locate the mobile appliance as a function of communication information received from a selected one of the plural open interfaces;
(b) determining the location of the mobile appliance; and
(c) reporting the location of the mobile appliance using an open interface defined by a second predetermined protocol standard different from the first predetermined protocol standard. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. In a wireless communication system having first and second mobile appliances, a plurality of base stations selectively communicating with the first and second mobile appliance, and location determining means for selectively determining the location of the first and second mobile appliances, the improvement wherein the communications protocol standards used by said plurality of base stations for communicating with said first and second mobile appliances are not the same.
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24. In a wireless communication system having plural base stations for selectively communicating with plural mobile appliances using plural communication protocol standards, the improvement comprising a common means for determining the location of selected ones of said plural mobile appliances.
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25. In a wireless communication system having first and second mobile appliances, a plurality of base stations communicating with the first mobile appliance using a first predetermined communications protocol and communicating with the second mobile appliance using a second predetermined communications protocol, and location determining means for selectively determining the location of the first and second mobile appliance, the improvement wherein said first predetermined communications protocol differs from said second predetermined communications protocol.
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