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Providing a location service in a wireless communications network using an indication of whether the location service is an emergency-related location service or a law enforcement-related location service

  • US 7,738,855 B2
  • Filed: 03/12/2004
  • Issued: 06/15/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/14/2003
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of performing a location service with respect to a mobile station, comprising:

  • communicating, by a base station to the mobile station, a paging message containing an indication of whether the paging message is related to at least one of an emergency-related location service and a law enforcement-related location service, the indication having a first state to indicate that the paging message is related to at least one of the emergency-related location service and the law enforcement-related location service, wherein the paging message is one of a general page message (GPM) containing the indication and a universal page message (UPM) containing the indication;

    receiving information regarding the location of the mobile station,wherein communicating the paging message comprises sending the paging message containing a first information element to identify service option 35 or service option 36, and a second information element to indicate whether the paging message is related to the emergency-related location service or law enforcement-relate location service; and

    the base station setting a state of the second information element based on a state of a field in a paging request from a mobile switching center indicating whether the paging request is related to the emergency-related location service or the law enforcement-related service.

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