Network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for roaming terminal in mobile communication system

• US 7,778,639 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2007
• Issued: 08/17/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 04/06/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Shim, Dong-Hee
• Primary Examiner(s): Zewdu; Meless N
• Application Number:
  US11/783,202
• Publication Number:
  US 20070238458A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,229 Days
• Field of Search: 4554041-4042, 455410-411, 455/414.1, 455/414.3, 455/415, 455418-421, 455/422.1, 4554321-4323, 455433-434, 4554351-4353, 455436-440, 455/447, 4554561-4566, 455/466, 455524-525, 455/550.1, 455/552.1, 455/556.2, 455560-561, 455423-425, 455/457, 709202-203, 709228-229, 340/539.1, 340/539.11, 340/539.13, 340/825.36, 340/825.49
• US Class Current: 455/433
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0054 of actual mobile position, i.e. position calculation on base station
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• 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 8/08 Mobility data transfer
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/10 between location register and external networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/12 between location registers or mobility servers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/08 Upper layer protocols network arrangements or communication protocols for networked applications H04L67/00

Abstract

A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a roaming terminal in a session-based position information system is disclosed. Network-initiation of area-based positioning of a roaming terminal is discriminated according to a proxy mode and a non-proxy mode, and area-based positioning for the roaming terminal is performed in various manners according to whether an SLP for performing the positioning procedure with respect to the discriminated modes is a V-SLP or an H-SLP.

Claims

1. A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a roaming terminal in a mobile communication system, comprising:

sending by a first server, a session initiation message for initiating a trigger session to the roaming terminal;

receiving, by the first server, a session start message from the roaming terminal;

requesting, by the first server, area identities (ids) related to area event-triggered positioning from a second server and obtaining, by the first server, area ids;

sending, by the first server, a session response message including at least a trigger parameter to the roaming terminal;

receiving, by the first server, a positioning initiation message from the roaming terminal and transferring it to the second server;

receiving, by the first server, a calculated position value of the roaming terminal from the second server and transferring, by the first server, the received calculated position value to the roaming terminal; and

providing, by the first server, the calculated position value received from the roaming terminal, to an agent, wherein the calculated position value is received from the roaming terminal when the trigger parameter is satisfied by the roaming terminal.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first server sends the area ids obtained from the second server to the roaming terminal through the session response message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the session initiation message comprises at least trigger type information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the trigger type information indicates an area event trigger type.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger parameter comprises at least a change_area type related to area event-triggered positioning or position values of an event area related to area event-triggered positioning.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the area ids correspond to one of ids of cells belonging to an event area related to the area event-triggered positioning, a mobile country code (MCC), a mobile network code (MNC) or a location area code (LAC), or a primary scrambling code number.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first server uses a proxy mode and the second server has a positioning function.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the first server, a message for requesting the area event-triggered positioning service from the agent.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first server is an H-SLP (Home-SLP (SUPL (Location Platform)) and the second server is V-SLP (Visited-SLP).

10. A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a roaming terminal in a mobile communication system, comprising:

sending, by a first server, a session initiation message for initiating a trigger session to the roaming terminal;

receiving, by the first server, a session start message from the roaming terminal;

requesting, by the first server, area identities (ids) related to area event-triggered positioning from a second server and obtaining, by the first server, area ids from the second server;

sending, by the first server, a session response message including at least a trigger parameter to the roaming terminal;

receiving, by the first server a positioning initiation message from the roaming terminal;

performing, by the first server, a positioning procedure with the roaming terminal and sending, by the first server, a calculated position value of the roaming terminal to the roaming terminal; and

providing, by the first server, the calculated position value received from the roaming terminal, to an agent, wherein the calculated position value is received from the roaming terminal when the trigger parameter is satisfied by the roaming terminal.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the first server sends the area ids obtained from the second server to the roaming terminal through the session response message.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the session initiation message comprises at least trigger type information.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the trigger type information indicate an area event trigger type.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein the trigger parameter comprises at least a change_area type related to area event-triggered positioning or position values of an event area related to area event-triggered positioning.

15. The method of claim 10, wherein the area ids correspond to one of identities (ids) of cells belonging to an event area related to the area event-triggered positioning, a mobile country code (MCC), a mobile network code (MNC) or a location area code (LAC), or a primary scrambling code number.

16. The method of claim 10, wherein the first server uses a proxy mode and has a positioning function for calculating the position of the roaming terminal.

17. The method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving, by the first server, a message for requesting the area event-triggered positioning service from the agent.

18. A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a roaming terminal in a mobile communication system, comprising:

receiving, by the roaming terminal, a session initiation message for initiating a trigger session from a first server;

sending, by the roaming terminal, a session start message to the first server;

receiving, by the roaming terminal, a session response message including at least a trigger parameter from the first server;

sending, by the roaming terminal, a positioning initiation message to the first server;

receiving, by the roaming terminal, a measured position value with respect to the roaming terminal from the first server;

comparing, by the roaming terminal, the received measured position value and a position value included in the trigger parameter to check whether an area event trigger condition is met; and

sending, by the roaming terminal, the measured position value to the first server when the area event trigger condition is met.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the roaming terminal receives the area identities (ids) of an event related to area event-triggered positioning from the first server through the session response message.

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the area ids are obtained by the first server from a second server.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the area ids correspond to one of ids of cells belonging to the event area, a mobile country code (MCC), a mobile network code (MNC) or a location area code (LAC), or a primary scrambling code number.

22. The method of claim 19, wherein the roaming terminal compares a current area id of the area where the roaming terminal is currently located and the received area ids, and when a first condition is met, the roaming terminal sends a SUPL REPORT message to the first server.

23. The method of claim 19, wherein when the trigger condition included in the trigger parameter indicates that the roaming terminal moves into a particular area or exists in the particular area and if at least one of the received area ids is identical to the current area id of the roaming terminal, the positioning initiation message is transmitted.

24. The method of claim 18, wherein the session initiation message comprises at least trigger type information.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the trigger type information indicates an area event trigger type.

26. The method of claim 18, wherein the trigger parameter comprises at least a change_area type related to area event-triggered positioning or position values of an event area related to area event-triggered positioning.

27. The method of claim 18, wherein the first server uses a proxy mode.

28. A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a roaming terminal in a mobile communication system, comprising:

sending, by a first server, a session initiation message for initiating a trigger session to the roaming terminal;

receiving, by the first server, a session start message including parameters related to setting at least a security session from the roaming terminal;

requesting and obtaining, by the first server, area identities (ids) related to area event-triggered positioning from a third server via a second server;

sending, by the first server, a session response message including at least a trigger parameter and an address of the third server to the roaming terminal; and

receiving, by the first server, a calculated position value with respect to the roaming terminal, from the roaming terminal and providing, by the first server, the calculated position value to an agent.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the first server sends the obtained area ids to the roaming terminal through the session response message.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein the session initiation message comprises trigger type information indicating an area event trigger type.

31. The method of claim 28, wherein the trigger parameter comprises at least a change_area type related to area event-triggered positioning or position values of an event area related to area event-triggered positioning.

32. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

receiving, by the first server, a message for requesting an area event-triggered positioning service from the agent.

33. The method of claim 28, wherein the security session is established between the roaming terminal and the third server by using parameters related to establishment of the security session, and the security session is a session for a positioning procedure between the roaming terminal and the third server.

34. The method of claim 28, wherein the first server is an H-SLC (Home-SUPL Location Center), the second server is a V-SLC (Visited-SLC), and the third server is a V-SPC (Visited-SUPL Positioning Center).

35. The method of claim 28, wherein the first server uses a non-proxy mode, and the third server performs the positioning function for calculating the position of the roaming terminal.

36. A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a roaming terminal in a mobile communication system, comprising:

receiving, by the roaming terminal, a session initiation message for initiating a trigger session from a first server;

sending, by the roaming terminal, a session start message including parameters related to at least a security session to the first server;

receiving, by the roaming terminal, a session response message including at least a trigger parameter and an address of a second server from the first server;

sending, by the roaming terminal, a positioning initiation message to the second server;

performing, by the roaming terminal, a positioning procedure by using a security session established with the second server using the security session-related parameters;

receiving by the roaming terminal, a measured position value with respect to the roaming terminal from the second server;

comparing, by the roaming terminal, the received measured position value and a position value included in the trigger parameter to check whether an area event trigger condition is met; and

providing, by the roaming terminal, the measured position value to the first server when the area event trigger condition is met.

37. A method of claim 36, wherein the roaming terminal receives area identities (ids) of an event area related to an area event-triggered positioning from the first server through the session response message.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein the area identities (ids) are obtained by the first server from the second server via a third server, and provided to the roaming terminal.

39. The method of claim 38, wherein the first server is an H-SLC, the second server is a V-SPC, and the third server is a V-SLC.

40. The method of claim 37, wherein the area ids are obtained by the first server from the third server and provided to the roaming terminal.

41. The method of claim 40, wherein the first server is the H-SLC, the second server is an H-SPC, and the third server is the V-SLC.

42. The method of claim 37, wherein the roaming terminal compares an area id of the area where the roaming terminal is currently located and the received area ids, and when trigger condition information contained in the trigger parameter is satisfied, the roaming terminal sends the positioning initiation message to the second server.

43. The method of claim 36, wherein the session initiation message comprises trigger type information indicating area event trigger type information.

44. A network-initiated area event triggered positioning method for a roaming terminal in a mobile communication system, comprising:

sending, by a first server, a session initiation message for initiating a trigger session to the roaming terminal;

receiving, by the first server, a session start message including parameters related to setting at least a security session from the roaming terminal;

requesting and obtaining, by the first server, area identities (ids) related to area event-triggered positioning from a second server;

sending, by the first server, a session response message including at least a trigger parameter and the address of a third server to the roaming terminal; and

receiving, by the first server, a calculated position value with respect to the roaming terminal from the roaming terminal and providing, by the first server, the calculated position value to an agent.

45. The method of claim 44, wherein the first server sends the obtained area ids to the roaming terminal through the session response message.

46. The method of claim 44, wherein the session initiation message comprises trigger type information indicating an area event trigger type.

47. The method of claim 44, further comprising:

receiving, by the first server, a message for requesting the area event-triggered positioning service from the agent.

48. The method of claim 44, wherein the security session is established between the roaming terminal and the third server by using parameters related to establishment of the security session, and the security session is a session for a positioning procedure between the roaming terminal and the third server.

49. The method of claim 44, wherein the first server is an H-SLC (Home-SUPL Location Center), the second server is a V-SLC (Visited-SLC), and the third server is an H-SPC (Home-SPC (SUPL Positioning Center)).