NETWORK SUPPORT FOR ACCESS TO LOCATION INFORMATION OF A MOBILE DEVICE
First Claim
1. A method operative to provide paged party location information in information made available to user equipment of a paging party, the method comprising:
- receiving origination message from the user equipment of the paging party;
extracting paged party identification information from the origination message;
determining that the paged party subscribes to location service based on the extracted paged party identification information;
determining a location of the paged party; and
transmitting a message including a description of the location to the user equipment of the paging party.
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Abstract
Geographic coordinates of user equipment of a paged party are determined either by communicating with a GPS receiver associated with the user equipment of the paged party or by cellular triangulation. The geographic coordinates may be converted into an associated common location description. For example the common location description is a city name, an address, or a distance and direction from a landmark. The geographic coordinates, common location description, or an abbreviation thereof, is transmitted to user equipment of a paging party. Using this service, parents may verify the location of their children. Security agencies or delivery services may verify and/or log the location of their personnel.
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36 Claims
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1. A method operative to provide paged party location information in information made available to user equipment of a paging party, the method comprising:
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receiving origination message from the user equipment of the paging party;
extracting paged party identification information from the origination message;
determining that the paged party subscribes to location service based on the extracted paged party identification information;
determining a location of the paged party; and
transmitting a message including a description of the location to the user equipment of the paging party. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A method operative to provide paged party location information to user equipment of a paging party, the method comprising:
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receiving origination message from the user equipment of the paging party;
extracting paged party identification information from the origination message;
determining that the paged party subscribes to a location service based on the extracted paged party identification information;
determining if the user equipment of the paged party is GPS enabled;
requesting GPS coordinates from the user equipment of the paged party if the user equipment of the paged party is GPS enabled;
requesting cellular triangulation services be used to generate location information regarding the user equipment of the paged party if the user equipment of the paged party is not GPS enabled;
determining a common description of a location of the paged party based on the GPS coordinates or the generated location information;
including a representation of the common description of the location in a field of a message; and
transmitting the message to the user equipment of the paging party. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A system operative to provide paged party location information to user equipment of a paging party, the system comprising:
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means for receiving origination message from the paging party;
means for extracting paged party identification information from the origination message;
means for determining that the paged party subscribes to a location service based on the extracted paged party identification information;
means for determining a location of the paged party;
means for including a description of the location of the paged party in a message; and
means for transmitting the message including the description of the location to the user equipment of the paging party. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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33. A mobile switching center operative to provide paged party location information to user equipment of a paging party, the mobile switching center comprising:
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a coordinate determiner operative to determine geographic coordinates of user equipment of a paged party identified in information extracted from an origination message;
a subscription feature determiner operative to determine if the paged party subscribes to a location service based on the identification information extracted from the origination message;
a coordinate converter operative to determine a common description of a geographic location associated with the geographic coordinates determined by the coordinate determiner; and
,a network interface operative to transmit the common description to the user equipment of the paging party. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36)
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