Procedure in a mobile telephone system to transmit position specifications

• US 6,671,513 B1
• Filed: 01/12/2001
• Issued: 12/30/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/03/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Hanger Solutions, LLC (IP Investments Group LLC)
• Original Assignee: Telia AB (Government of Norway)
• Inventors: Frank, Robert, Winroth, Mats Olof
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Lee
• Application Number:
  US09/623,599
• Time in Patent Office: 1,082 Days
• Field of Search: 455/404, 455/456, 455/457, 455/466, 455/558, 342/357.09, 342/457
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• 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 76/50 for emergency connections

Abstract

A system and associated method of providing position specifications of a mobile telephone station is provided. A position specification is provided to a mobile station via a cell level general cell broadcast. When a specific telephone call is made from the mobile station to a center, the specific call will trigger the transmission of the position specification collected via the cell broadcast (CB). The position specification is transmitted from the mobile station via a short text message (SMS) to the center.

Claims

1. A method to transmit position specification in a mobile telephone system including base stations and mobile stations, comprising the steps of:

transmitting a position specification to a mobile station which stores the position specification, the position specification being transmitted out on cell level via a general (cell broadcast;

CB) message;

making a specific telephone call from the mobile station to a center which has a receiving terminal;

triggering the transmission of the position specification collected in a separate message to the center upon making the specific telephone call;

transmitting the position specification via short text message (SMS) to the center, which by A-number-analysis identify where to route the SMS-message and verbal contact is connected to the same operator in the center, and the operator identifies the area from which the mobile station calls.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the telephone call and the message both include information about the subscriber number of the mobile station, so that the message is routed to the same receiving terminal.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the position specification is stored in an application on the mobile station'"'"'s subscriber card (SIM).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the message is of the type short text message (SMS) or USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Services Data) or UUS (User-to-User Signalling).

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the telephone call is an emergency call, and the center is an emergency center.