Radio communications device, universal integrated circuit card and related method and communications device

• US 9,107,036 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Ltd Hong Kong (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Dong, Olivier
• Primary Examiner(s): CAI, WAYNE HUU
• Application Number:
  US13/832,932
• Publication Number:
  US 20130203441A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 455/558, 4554561-4563, 455/550.1, 455/551, 4554322-4323
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/03 Cooperating elements; Interaction or communication between different cooperating elements or between cooperating elements and receivers
• 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 92/08 between user and terminal device

Abstract

The present invention provides for a UICC interface and related interfacing method, for use in a mobile radio communications device and including an element enabling the UICC to provide an indication that at least one service requiring location data is present in the UICC, an element for UICC to receive notification that a source of location data is available, an element for allowing the UICC to initiate transfer of location data thereto, an element for the actual transfer of the location data to the UICC, and an element enabling the UICC to terminate the transfer of the location data, and wherein the location data can be provided from a GPS module or remotely in a contact-less manner.

Claims

1. A universal integrated circuit card (UICC) comprising:

a receiver for receiving notification that a source of geographical location data is available in a mobile radio communications device by modifying at least one bit of a terminal profile;

a generator for generating, when said terminal profile has indicated that the source of geographical location data is present, a signal indicating that said UICC requires geographical location data; and

a transmitter for sending said generated signal indicating that said UICC requires geographical location data to the mobile radio communications device;

the receiver being further operable to receive a signal carrying the required geographical location data from the mobile radio communications device.

2. A universal integrated circuit card as claimed in claim 1, wherein the signal indicating that said UICC requires geographical location data is adapted to serve as a request to the mobile radio communications device to send geographical location data to the UICC.

3. A method performed by a universal integrated circuit card (UICC) of obtaining geographical location data from a mobile radio communications device, the method comprising:

receiving notification that a source of geographical location data is available in a mobile radio communications device by modifying at least one bit of a terminal profile;

generating, when said terminal profile has indicated that the source of geographical location data is present, a signal indicating that said UICC requires geographical location data;

sending said generated signal indicating that said UICC requires geographical location data to the mobile radio communications device; and

receiving a signal carrying the required geographical location data from the mobile radio communications device.