LOCATION INFORMATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING NOTIFICATION BASED UPON LOCATION

• US 20090280830A1
• 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 8,060,116 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/456.100
• 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 H-SLP (Home-SUPL Location Platform) includes receiving, by the H-SLC, a request for positioning of the terminal; transmitting, a session initialization message including a notification mode parameter to the terminal if one or more of location-based notification and verification are required as a result of checking the privacy of the terminal; and receiving a report message including the positioned location of the terminal from the terminal, wherein the positioned location of the terminal is acquired by a positioning process between the H-SPC and the terminal.

Claims

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

receiving, by the H-SLC, a request for positioning of the terminal;

transmitting, by the H-SLC, a session initialization message including a notification mode parameter to the terminal if one or more of location-based notification and verification are required as a result of checking the privacy of the terminal;

receiving, by the H-SLC, a report message including the positioned location of the terminal from the terminal, wherein the positioned location of the terminal is acquired by a positioning process between the H-SPC and the terminal;

transmitting, by the H-SLC, a session notification message including a notification element to the terminal if one or both of notification and verification based upon the location are required;

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

transmitting, by the H-SLC, the location of the terminal to a client who has requested the location of the terminal in response to the received session notification response message.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the H-SPC, a positioning initialization message from the terminal after transmitting the session initialization message;

performing, by the H-SPC, a positioning process with the terminal;

transmitting, by the H-SPC, the report message including the positioned location of the terminal to the terminal if one or more of notification and verification based upon the location are required; and

transferring, by the terminal, the report message to the H-SLC.

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

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

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transferring, by the H-SLC an end message to the terminal before transmitting the location of the terminal after receiving the session notification response message.

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

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the end message is a SUPL END message.

8. 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.