LOCATION INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING NOTIFICATION BASED UPON LOCATION

• US 20090279484A1
• Filed: 07/06/2009
• Published: 11/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/01/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: SHIM, Dong-Hee
• Granted Patent: US 8,036,680 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/02 Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• 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 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/16 selectively restricting mobility data tracking

Abstract

According to an embodiment, a location based notification method in a SLP (SUPL Location Platform) includes transmitting, by the SLP, a session initialization message including a notification mode parameter indicating one or more of notification and verification based upon the location of the terminal to the terminal; receiving a positioning initialization message from the terminal; calculating the location of the terminal by performing a positioning process with the terminal; transmitting a session notification message including a notification element to the terminal when the location of the terminal is calculated; receiving a session notification response message including a notification response by the user of the terminal from the terminal; and transmitting the location of the terminal to a client who has requested the location of the terminal when the session notification response message is received.

Claims

1. A location based notification method in a SLP (SUPL Location Platform) for calculating and providing a location of a terminal according to a client'"'"'s request, the method comprising:

transmitting, by the SLP, a session initialization message including a notification mode parameter indicating one or more of notification and verification based upon the location of the terminal to the terminal;

receiving, by the SLP, a positioning initialization message from the terminal;

calculating, by the SLP, the location of the terminal by performing a positioning process with the terminal;

transmitting, by the SLP, a session notification message including a notification element to the terminal when the location of the terminal is calculated;

receiving, by the SLP, a session notification response message including a notification response by the user of the terminal from the terminal; and

transmitting, by the SLP, the location of the terminal to a client who has requested the location of the terminal when the session notification response message is received.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification mode parameter further indicates a normal notification and verification.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more of the normal notification and verification are performed for a user-based notification and verification.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

checking, by the SLP, the privacy of the terminal to check whether the one or more of location-based notification and verification are required, before transmitting the session initialization message,

wherein the session initialization message and session notification message are transmitted to the terminal when the one or more of the location-based notification and verification are required.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the session initialization message is a SUPL INIT message, the positioning initialization message is a SUPL POS INIT message, the session notification message is a SUPL NOTIFY message, and the session notification response message is a SUPL NOTIFY RESPONSE message.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transferring, by the SLP, an end message to the terminal when the session notification response message is received, before transmitting the location of the terminal.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification mode parameter is a Notification Mode parameter, the notification element is a Notification parameter, and the notification response is a Notification Response parameter.