EMERGENCY MOBILE ORIGINATED LOCATION REPORT

• US 20150189485A1
• Filed: 12/26/2013
• Published: 07/02/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Levin, Tirosh, Rochberger, Haim, Aswani, Chandru
• Application Number:
  US14/140,732
• Publication Number:
  US 20150189485A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 4/90 Services for handling of emergency or hazardous situations, e.g. earthquake and tsunami warning systems [ETWS]
• 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 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

Various systems and methods for providing emergency mobile originated location reports are described herein. A user equipment (UE) to provide emergency mobile originated location reports comprises a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) core; and a controller module to: detect at the UE, an initiation of an emergency call; and trigger, at the UE, the generation of a location report by the UE; wherein the GNSS core is to transmit the location report from the UE to a remote location server.

Claims

1. A user equipment (UE) to provide emergency mobile originated location reports, comprising:

a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) core; and

a controller module to;

detect at the UE, an initiation of an emergency call; and

trigger, at the UE, the generation of a location report by the UE;

wherein the GNSS core is to transmit the location report from the UE to a remote location server.

2. The UE of claim 1, wherein to detect the initiation of the emergency call, the controller module is to detect the initiation of the emergency call at a cellular modem of the UE.

3. The UE of claim 1, wherein to detect the initiation of the emergency call, the controller module is to detect the initiation of the emergency call at a user application executing at the UE.

4. The UE of claim 1, wherein to detect the initiation of the emergency call, the controller module is to detect the initiation of the emergency call at an operating system module of the UE.

5. The UE of claim 1, wherein to trigger the generation of the location report, the controller module is to:

generate and transmit a request for the location report to the GNSS core, the request comporting to the format of a network initiated location request.

6. The UE of claim 1, wherein to transmit the location report, the GNSS core is to transmit the location report over a cellular control plane.

7. The UE of claim 1, wherein to transmit the location report, the GNSS core is to transmit the location report using SUPL over a cellular user plane.

8. The UE of claim 1, wherein to transmit the location report, the GNSS core is to transmit the location report using SUPL over a wireless local area network (WLAN).

9. The UE of claim 8, wherein the WLAN is in accordance with an IEEE 802.11 family of standards.

10. The UE of claim 1, wherein to transmit the location report, the GNSS core is to transmit the location report using simple messaging service (SMS).

11. The UE of claim 1, wherein to transmit the location report, the GNSS core is to transmit the location report over a plurality of communication channels selected from a cellular control plane, SUPL over a cellular user plane, using SUPL over a WLAN, or using SMS.

12. A method for providing emergency mobile originated location reports from a user equipment (UE), the method comprising:

detecting at the UE, an initiation of an emergency call;

triggering, at the UE, the generation of a location report by the UE; and

transmitting the location report from the UE to a remote location server.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein detecting the initiation of the emergency call comprises detecting the initiation of the emergency call at a cellular modem of the UE.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein detecting the initiation of the emergency call comprises detecting the initiation of the emergency call at a user application executing at the UE.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein detecting the initiation of the emergency call comprises detecting the initiation of the emergency call at an operating system module of the UE.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein triggering the generation of the location report comprises:

generating and transmitting a request for the location report, internal to the UE, the request comporting to the format of a network initiated location request.

17. The method of claim 12, wherein transmitting the location report comprises transmitting the location report over a cellular control plane.

18. The method of claim 12, wherein transmitting the location report comprises transmitting the location report using SUPL over a cellular user plane.

19. The method of claim 12, wherein transmitting the location report comprises transmitting the location report using SUPL over a wireless local area network (WLAN).

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the WLAN is in accordance with an IEEE 802.11 family of standards.

21. The method of claim 12, wherein transmitting the location report comprises transmitting the location report using simple messaging service (SMS).

22. The method of claim 12, wherein transmitting the location report comprises transmitting the location report over a plurality of communication channels selected from a cellular control plane, SUPL over a cellular user plane, using SUPL over a WLAN, or using SMS.

23. A machine-readable medium including instructions for providing emergency mobile originated location reports from a user equipment (UE), which when executed by the UE, cause the UE to:

detect at the UE, an initiation of an emergency call;

trigger, at the UE, the generation of a location report by the UE; and

transmit the location report from the UE to a remote location server.