Location information system and method for performing notification based upon location

• US 8,036,681 B2
• Filed: 07/06/2009
• Issued: 10/11/2011
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Corsaro; Nick
• Assistant Examiner(s): Choo; Munsoon
• Application Number:
  US12/498,294
• Publication Number:
  US 20090280831A1
• Time in Patent Office: 827 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.2, 4554321-4353, 4554561-457, 455/404.2, 455/435.1
• US Class Current: 455/456.2
• 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) receiving, by the H-SLP, a request for positioning of a roaming terminal; transmitting a session initialization message including a notification mode parameter to the roaming terminal when one or more of the location-based notification and verification are required as a result of checking a privacy of the roaming terminal; requesting, an initial location of the roaming terminal to a V-SLP (Visited-SUPL Location Platform) thereby to receive the initial location; and performing a positioning process to calculate the location of the roaming terminal if the required quality for the received initial location of the roaming terminal is not satisfied.

Claims

1. A location based notification method in a H-SLP (Home-SUPL (Secure User Plane) Location Platform) for calculating and providing a location of a roaming terminal according to a client'"'"'s request, the method comprising:

receiving, by the H-SLP, a client'"'"'s request for positioning of a roaming terminal;

transmitting, by the H-SLP, a SUPL INIT (SUPL Initialization) message to the roaming terminal before a connection with the roaming terminal is established, the SUPL INIT message including a notification mode parameter indicating whether or not a notification and verification based on the location of the roaming terminal are to be performed after the location of the roaming terminal is calculated;

requesting, by H-SLP, an initial location of the roaming terminal to a V-SLP (Visited-SUPL (Secure User Plane) Location Platform) thereby to receive the initial location of the roaming terminal;

performing, by the H-SLP, a positioning process to calculate the location of the roaming terminal if a required quality for the received initial location of the roaming terminal is not satisfied;

after the location of the roaming terminal is calculated through the positioning process, transmitting, by the H-SLP, a SUPL NOTIFY message including a notification element to the roaming terminal if the notification mode parameter indicates that the notification and verification based on the location of the roaming terminal are to be performed;

receiving, by the H-SLP from the roaming terminal in response to the SUPL NOTIFY message, a SUPL NOTIFY RESPONSE message that includes a verification indicating whether to allow or not allow a provision of the calculated location of the roaming terminal to the client; and

transmitting, by the H-SLP, the calculated location of the roaming terminal in response to the received SUPL NOTIFY RESPONSE message when the received SUPL NOTIFY RESPONSE message includes the verification indicating to allow the provision of the calculated location of the roaming terminal to the client.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transferring an end message to the roaming terminal from the H-SLP before transmitting the calculated location of the roaming terminal after receiving the SUPL NOTIFY RESPONSE message.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein as a result of the requesting step, if the received initial location of the roaming terminal meets the required quality (QoP), then the step of transmitting the SUPL NOTIFY message is performed without carrying out the step of performing the positioning process.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of receiving the client'"'"'s request for positioning of the roaming terminal is performed by using an RLP SRLIR (Standard Roaming Location Immediate Request) message.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of transmitting the calculated location of the roaming terminal is performed by using an RLP SRLIA (Standard Roaming Location Immediate Answer) message.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, by the H-SLP from the roaming terminal, a SUPL POS INIT message to start the positioning process with the roaming terminal.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

before a releasing step, transmitting, by the H-SLP, a session end message to the roaming terminal after receiving the SUPL NOTIFY RESPONSE message when the notification mode parameter indicates that the notification and verification based on the location of the roaming terminal are to be performed; and

releasing the connection with the roaming terminal after transmitting the session end message.