SET initiated area event triggered positioning method in mobile communication system

• US 8,121,611 B2
• Filed: 04/06/2007
• Issued: 02/21/2012
• 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): Appiah, Charles
• Assistant Examiner(s): Yi, Alexander
• Application Number:
  US11/783,213
• Publication Number:
  US 20070281670A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,782 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.1, 455/418, 455/456.6, 340/539.13
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0009 Transmission of position information to remote stations involving assistance data G01S5/0236
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• 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 76/10 Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/08 Upper layer protocols network arrangements or communication protocols for networked applications H04L67/00

Abstract

A SET-initiated area event triggered positioning method in a session-based service system is disclosed. The method is variously performed according to a proxy mode or a non-proxy mode, and further according to which SLP (SUPL location platform) has a positioning procedure.

Claims

1. A SUPL (Secure User Plane Location) Enabled Terminal (SET)-initiated area event triggered positioning method in a mobile communication system, the SET having a SUPL Agent, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first server, a SUPL TRIGGERED START message from a SET to start a trigger session, the SUPL TRIGGERED START message including a session-id, SET capabilities, a trigger type indicator, a location identifier (lid), and trigger parameters, wherein the trigger type indicator indicates an area event, and wherein the trigger parameters include trigger conditions indicating a change area type and an event area related to an area event triggered positioning, the change area type indicating one of entering, leaving, or staying at the event area;

verifying, by the first server, whether the SET is roaming;

sending, by the first server, a RLP message that includes the SUPL TRIGGERED START message to a second server after the SET is verified to be roaming;

receiving, by the first server, a RLP message that includes a SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message from the second server, the SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message including area ids that represent ids of cells that belong to an area that has been requested to be positioned by the SET;

sending, by the first server, the SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message to the SET, the SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message including a session-id, a positioning method, and the received area ids;

receiving, from the SET, a POS INIT message to allow the SET to start a positioning session with the second server when a current area-id and one of the area ids correspond to each other, wherein the POS INIT message includes a session-id, lid, and SET capabilities;

sending, to the second server, a RLP SSRP message that includes the SUPL POS INIT message;

receiving, from the second server, a RLP SSRP message that includes a SUPL REPORT message, wherein the SUPL REPORT message includes a positioning result;

sending, to the SET, the SUPL REPORT message including a session-id and the positioning result, whereby the SET then checks whether at least one of the trigger conditions included in the trigger parameters has been satisfied, based on a result of comparing the positioning result with the at least one of the trigger conditions included in the trigger parameters for the area event triggered positioning with respect to the entering, leaving, or staying at the event area indicated by the change-area type; and

receiving, from the SET, a SUPL END message,

wherein the first server is a H-SLP (Home SUPL Location Platform) and the second server is a V-SLP (Visited SUPL Location Platform), and

wherein the trigger parameters include the area ids that represent one of ids of cells that belong to mobile country codes (MCC) and primary scrambling code numbers.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the verifying step is based on routing information.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger parameters further include the area ids that represent one of ids of cells that belong to an event area, mobile network codes (MNC), and location area codes (LAC).

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

5. A SUPL (Secure User Plane Location) Enabled Terminal (SET)-initiated area event triggered positioning method in a mobile communication system, the SET having a SUPL Agent, the method comprising:

sending, by the SET to a first server, a SUPL TRIGGERED START message to start a trigger session, the SUPL TRIGGERED START message including a session-id, SET capabilities, a trigger type indicator, a location identifier (lid), and trigger parameters, wherein the trigger type indicator indicates an area event, and wherein the trigger parameters include trigger conditions indicating a change-area type for an area event triggered positioning, and an event area for the area event triggered positioning, the change-area type indicating one of entering, leaving, or staying at the event area;

receiving, by the SET from the first server in response to the sent SUPL TRIGGERED START message, a SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message, the SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message including a session-id, a positioning method, and area ids that represent ids of cells that belong to an area that has been requested to be positioned by the SET;

sending, by the SET to the first server, a POS INIT message to start a positioning session with a second server when a current area-id and one of the area ids correspond to each other, wherein the POS INIT message includes a session-id, lid, and SET capabilities;

performing, by the SET, the positioning session with the second server by exchanging positioning messages with the second server via the first server to obtain a positioning result;

receiving, by the SET from the first server, the SUPL REPORT message that includes the positioning result;

comparing the positioning result with at least one of the trigger conditions included in the trigger parameters for the area event triggered positioning with respect to the entering, leaving, or staying at the event area indicated by the change-area type; and

forwarding, to the SUPL Agent, the positioning result when the at least one of the trigger conditions included in the trigger parameters is satisfied as a result of the comparing step,

wherein the first server is a H-SLP (Home SUPL Location Platform) and the second server is a V-SLP (Visited SUPL Location Platform), and

wherein the trigger parameters include the area ids that represent one of ids of cells that belong to mobile country codes (MCC) and primary scrambling code numbers.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the calculating of the positioning result is performed by the V-SLP if SET-assisted mode exists, or is performed by the SET if SET-based mode exists.

7. A SUPL (Secure User Plane Location) Enabled Terminal (SET)-initiated area event triggered positioning method in a mobile communication system, the SET having a SUPL Agent, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first server, a SUPL TRIGGERED START message from a SET to start a trigger session, the SUPL TRIGGERED START message including a session-id, SET capabilities, a trigger type indicator, a location identifier (lid), and trigger parameters, wherein the trigger type indicator indicates an area event, and wherein the trigger parameters include trigger conditions indicating a change-area type for an area event triggered positioning, and an event area for the area event triggered positioning;

verifying, by the first server, whether the SET is roaming;

sending, by the first server, a RLP message that includes the SUPL TRIGGERED START message to a second server after the SET is verified to be roaming;

receiving, by the first server, a RLP message that includes a SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message from the second server, the SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message including area ids that represent ids of cells that belong to an area that has been requested to be positioned by the SET;

sending, by the first server, the SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message to the SET, the SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message including a session-id, a positioning method, and the area ids;

receiving, from the SET, a SUPL POS INIT message to allow the SET to start a positioning session with the first server when a current area-id and one of the area ids correspond to each other, wherein the SUPL POS INIT message includes a session-id, lid, and SET capabilities;

sending, to the second server, a RLP message that includes the lid;

receiving, from the second server, a RLP message in response to the RLP message including the lid;

calculating, by the first server, a positioning result of the SET by exchanging positioning messages with the SET;

sending, to the SET, a SUPL REPORT message including a session-id and the positioning result, whereby the SET then checks whether at least one of the trigger conditions included in the trigger parameters has been satisfied based on a result of comparing the positioning result with the at least one of the trigger conditions included in the trigger parameters for the area event triggered positioning with respect to the entering, leaving, or staying at the event area indicated by the change-area type; and

receiving, from the SET, a SUPL END message,

wherein the first server is a H-SLP (Home SUPL Location Platform) and the second server is a V-SLP (Visited SUPL Location Platform), and

wherein the trigger parameters include the area ids that represent one of ids of cells that belong to mobile country codes (MCC) and primary scrambling code numbers.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the calculating of the positioning result is performed by the H-SLP if SET-assisted mode exists, or is performed by the SET if SET-based mode exists.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the verifying step is based on routing information.

10. The method of claim 7, wherein the trigger parameters include area ids that represent one of ids of cells that belong to an event area, mobile network codes (MNC), and location area codes (LAC).