System and method for positioning a mobile terminal using a terminal based browser
First Claim
1. A telecommunications system for graphically displaying the current location of a mobile telephone terminal within a cellular network on said mobile terminal, said mobile telephone terminal being in wireless communication with said cellular network, said telecommunications system comprising:
- a terminal browser located within said mobile telephone terminal;
a location services node in communication with said terminal browser through said cellular network, said terminal browser sending a positioning request and format information associated with said positioning request to said location services node; and
a mobile positioning center for receiving said positioning request from said location services node, calculating coordinate location information identifying the location of said mobile telephone terminal and forwarding said coordinate location information to said location services node, said coordinate location information being calculated by triangulating only at least three positioning data measured by said cellular network and transmitted to said mobile positioning center directly from said cellular network, said location services node converting said coordinate location information into descriptive location information using said format information and sending said descriptive location information to said terminal browser for display on said mobile telephone terminal.
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Abstract
A telecommunications system and method is disclosed which utilizes a terminal-based browser, such as the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) "deck", within a Mobile Station (MS) to connect the MS to web-based location services and to a Mobile Positioning Center (MPC). Terminal based browsers, such as WAP "deck", allow for the graphical presentation of the current location of the MS on a display on the MS and provide an interactive user dialog, which permits the mobile subscriber to determine the format of the graphical presentation of the current location of the MS.
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18 Claims
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1. A telecommunications system for graphically displaying the current location of a mobile telephone terminal within a cellular network on said mobile terminal, said mobile telephone terminal being in wireless communication with said cellular network, said telecommunications system comprising:
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a terminal browser located within said mobile telephone terminal; a location services node in communication with said terminal browser through said cellular network, said terminal browser sending a positioning request and format information associated with said positioning request to said location services node; and a mobile positioning center for receiving said positioning request from said location services node, calculating coordinate location information identifying the location of said mobile telephone terminal and forwarding said coordinate location information to said location services node, said coordinate location information being calculated by triangulating only at least three positioning data measured by said cellular network and transmitted to said mobile positioning center directly from said cellular network, said location services node converting said coordinate location information into descriptive location information using said format information and sending said descriptive location information to said terminal browser for display on said mobile telephone terminal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method for graphically displaying the current location of a mobile telephone terminal within a cellular network on said mobile telephone terminal, said mobile telephone terminal being in wireless communication with said cellular network, said method comprising the steps of:
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connecting a terminal browser located within said mobile telephone terminal to a location services node through said cellular network; sending, by said terminal browser, a positioning request and format information associated with said positioning request to said location services node; forwarding, by said location services node, said positioning request to a mobile positioning center; calculating, by said mobile positioning center, coordinate location information identifying the location of said mobile telephone terminal, said coordinate location information being calculated by triangulating only at least three positioning data measured by said cellular network and transmitted to said mobile positioning center directly from said cellular network; sending, by said mobile positioning center, said coordinate location information to said location services node for conversion of said coordinate location information to descriptive location information using said format information; and sending, by said location services node, said descriptive location information to said mobile telephone terminal for display on said mobile telephone terminal. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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