Wireless network capable of allowing coincident mobile terminating location request and mobile originating transactions
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1. A wireless communications network comprising:
- a plurality of Mobile Subscriber (MS) units;
at least one base transceiver station (BTS), each BTS communicating wirelessly with ones of said MS units in a network cell;
at least one mobile switching center (MSC) administering to said at least one BTS and to any neighboring ones of said at least one MSC; and
at least one Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) supporting location services (LCS) and providing an access node for LCS service requests, wherein requests for services from one MS unit of said plurality of MS units are not placed on hold until a LCS request to said one MS unit completes.
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A wireless communications network with Mobile Subscriber (MS) units in cells serviced by base transceiver stations (BTSs). Mobile switching centers (MSC) administer to base station controllers (BSC) which administer to neighboring BTSs. A Serving Mobile Location Center (SMLC) performs positional measurement for the MS units. Gateway Mobile Location Centers (GMLCs) provides an access node for mobile terminating location requests (MT-LR) from external LCS clients. Even after origination of a MT-LR for a particular MS, mobile originated (MO) requests from the particular MS unit are completed normally while and before the MT-LR completes.
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1. A wireless communications network comprising:
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a plurality of Mobile Subscriber (MS) units;
at least one base transceiver station (BTS), each BTS communicating wirelessly with ones of said MS units in a network cell;
at least one mobile switching center (MSC) administering to said at least one BTS and to any neighboring ones of said at least one MSC; and
at least one Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) supporting location services (LCS) and providing an access node for LCS service requests, wherein requests for services from one MS unit of said plurality of MS units are not placed on hold until a LCS request to said one MS unit completes. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A wireless communications network comprising:
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a plurality of Mobile Subscriber (MS) units;
a plurality of base transceiver stations (BTSs), each BTS in a network cell communicating wirelessly with ones of said MS units in said cell;
a plurality of base station controllers (BSCs) administering to ones of said plurality of BTSs;
a plurality of mobile switching centers (MSC) administering to said plurality of BSCs and to any neighboring ones of said plurality of MSCs;
at least one Serving Mobile Location Center (SMLC) performing positional measurement for ones of said plurality of MS units; and
at least one Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) providing an access node for mobile terminating location requests (MT-LRs) from external LCS clients, wherein mobile originated (MO) requests for services from ones of said plurality of MS units are not placed on hold until MT-LRs to requesting said ones of said plurality of MS units complete. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of managing a wireless communications network, said method comprising the steps of:
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a) initiating a mobile terminating location request (MT-LR) for a particular mobile subscriber (MS) unit;
b) idling the mobility management (MM) layer of said particular MS unit;
c) initiating a mobile originated (MO) request for services from said particular MS unit;
d) processing said MO request; and
e) providing a response to said MT-LR. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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