Location reporting with secure user plane location (SUPL)

• US 8,755,818 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2011
• Issued: 06/17/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Wachter, Andreas, Edge, Stephen, Burroughs, Kirk
• Primary Examiner(s): Issing, Gregory C
• Application Number:
  US13/269,084
• Publication Number:
  US 20120264448A1
• Time in Patent Office: 984 Days
• Field of Search: 455/456.1, 342/450
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0869 for achieving mutual authentication cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for mutual authentication H04L9/3273
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• 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 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• 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 64/006 with additional information processing, e.g. for direction or speed determination
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/04 Registration at HLR or HSS [Home Subscriber Server]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/06 Registration at serving network Location Register, VLR or user mobility server
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/16 selectively restricting mobility data tracking

Abstract

Techniques for supporting periodic and other location services with Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) and other location architectures are described. The techniques can provide position estimates for a SUPL enabled terminal (SET) to a SUPL agent periodically and/or based on trigger events. A Home SUPL Location Platform (H-SLP) receives from the SUPL agent a request for position estimates for the SET. The H-SLP starts a SUPL location session with the SET. For each of at least one reporting event during the location session, the H-SLP obtains a position estimate for the SET and sends the position estimate to the SUPL agent. The position estimate may be derived by the SET and sent to the H-SLP. Alternatively, the position estimate may be derived by the H-SLP based on measurements from the SET.

Claims

1. A Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) enabled terminal (SET) comprising:

at least one processor configured to;

receive a first message from a Home SUPL Location Platform (H-SLP) to initiate a triggered location session, the first message including a trigger type;

transmit a second message to the H-SLP to start the location session in response to the first message;

receive a third message in response to the second message, the third message including trigger parameters and a reporting mode, wherein the trigger parameters indicate when to report the SET location and the reporting mode is selected from a group comprising batch, real time and quasi-real time;

determine a plurality of position estimates for the SET at a plurality of times ascertained by the SET during the location session in response to the trigger parameters; and

report at least one position estimate obtained for the SET to the H-SLP in response to the reporting mode provided in the third message and selected from the group comprising batch, real time and quasi-real time.

2. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to select a positioning method from among a plurality of positioning methods supported by the SET, and wherein each position estimate is determined in accordance with the selected positioning method.

3. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to derive a position estimate for the SET in response to the trigger parameters when a standalone positioning method is selected.

4. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal of claim 1, wherein the at least one processor is configured to derive a position estimate for the SET in response to the trigger parameters when a SET based positioning method is selected.

5. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal of claim 1, wherein the first message is a SUPL initiate message, the second message is a SUPL triggered start message, and the third message is a SUPL triggered response message.

6. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal of claim 1, wherein the trigger parameters are selected from at least one of a group comprising periodic, area event and historical.

7. A method performed by a Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal (SET) comprising:

receiving a first message from a Home SUPL Location Platform (H-SLP) for initiating a triggered location session, the first message including a trigger type;

transmitting a second message to the H-SLP to start the location session in response to the first message;

receiving a third message in response to the second message, the third message including trigger parameters and a reporting mode, wherein the trigger parameters indicate when to report the SET location and the reporting mode is selected from a group comprising batch, real time and quasi-real time;

determining a plurality of position estimates for the SET at a plurality of times ascertained by the SET during the location session in response to the trigger parameters; and

reporting at least one position estimate obtained for the SET to the H-SLP in response to the reporting mode provided in the third message and selected from the group comprising batch, real time and quasi-real time.

8. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

selecting a positioning method from among a plurality of positioning methods supported by the SET, and wherein each position estimate is determined in accordance with the selected positioning method.

9. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

deriving a position estimate for the SET in response to the trigger parameters when a standalone positioning method is selected.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising:

deriving a position estimate for the SET in response to the trigger parameters when a SET based positioning method is selected.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the first message is a SUPL initiate message, the second message is a SUPL triggered start message, and the third message is a SUPL triggered response message.

12. The method of claim 7, wherein the trigger parameters are selected from at least one of a group comprising periodic, area event and historical.

13. A Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal (SET) comprising:

means for receiving a first message from a Home SUPL Location Platform (H-SLP) for initiating a triggered location session, the first message including a trigger type;

means for transmitting a second message to the H-SLP to start the location session in response to the first message;

means for receiving a third message in response to the second message, the third message including trigger parameters and a reporting mode, wherein the trigger parameters indicate when to report the SET location and the reporting mode is selected from a group comprising batch, real time and quasi-real time;

mean for determining a plurality of position estimates for the SET at a plurality of times ascertained by the SET during the location session in response to the trigger parameters; and

means for reporting at least one position estimate obtained for the SET to the H-SLP in response to the reporting mode provided in the third message and selected from the group comprising batch, real time and quasi-real time.

14. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal (SET) of claim 13, further comprising:

means for selecting a positioning method from among a plurality of positioning methods supported by the SET, and wherein each position estimate is determined in accordance with the selected positioning method.

15. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal (SET) of claim 13, further comprising:

means for deriving a position estimate for the SET in response to the trigger parameters when a standalone positioning method is selected.

16. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal (SET) of claim 13, further comprising:

means for deriving a position estimate for the SET in response to the trigger parameters when a SET based positioning method is selected.

17. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal (SET) of claim 13, wherein the first message is a SUPL initiate message, the second message is a SUPL triggered start message, and the third message is a SUPL triggered response message.

18. The Secure User Plane Location enabled terminal (SET) of claim 13, wherein the trigger parameters are selected from at least one of a group comprising periodic, area event and historical.

19. A non-transient computer-readable medium having instructions, encoded thereon, executable by a computer, the instructions when executed on a computer perform a method performed by a Secure User Plane Location enabled (SET) the method comprising:

receiving a first message from a Home SUPL Location Platform (H-SLP) for initiating a triggered location session, the first message including a trigger type;

transmitting a second message to the H-SLP to start the location session in response to the first message;

receiving a third message in response to the second message, the third message including trigger parameters and a reporting mode, wherein the trigger parameters indicate when to report the SET location and the reporting mode is selected from a group comprising batch, real time and quasi-real time;

determining a plurality of position estimates for the SET at a plurality of times ascertained by the SET during the location session in response to the trigger parameters;

reporting at least one position estimate obtained for the SET to the H-SLP in response to the reporting mode provided in the third message and selected from the group comprising batch, real time and quasi-real time.

20. The non-transient computer-readable medium of claim 19 having instructions, encoded thereon, executable by a computer, the instructions when executed on a computer perform the method further comprising:

selecting a positioning method from among a plurality of positioning methods supported by the SET, and wherein each position estimate is determined in accordance with the selected positioning method.

21. The non-transient computer-readable medium of claim 19 having instructions, encoded thereon, executable by a computer, the instructions when executed on a computer perform the method further comprising:

deriving a position estimate for the SET in response to the trigger parameters when a standalone positioning method is selected.

22. The non-transient computer-readable medium of claim 19 having instructions, encoded thereon, executable by a computer, the instructions when executed on a computer perform the method further comprising:

deriving a position estimate for the SET in response to the trigger parameters when a SET based positioning method is selected.

23. The non-transient computer-readable medium of claim 19, wherein the first message is a SUPL initiate message, the second message is a SUPL triggered start message, and the third message is a SUPL triggered response message.

24. The non-transient computer-readable medium of claim 20, wherein the trigger parameters are selected from at least one of a group comprising periodic, area event and historical.