Set initiated area event triggered positioning method in mobile communication system

• US 8,116,786 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2009
• Issued: 02/14/2012
• 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:
  US12/571,270
• Publication Number:
  US 20100093369A1
• Time in Patent Office: 867 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 having a home network and a visited network that support roaming of the SET having a SUPL Agent, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first server of the network, 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 for indicating an area event, a location identifier (lid), and trigger parameters,

wherein the trigger parameters include trigger conditions indicating a change-area type for an area event triggered positioning, and an event area indicating a name or position values of the event area, and

wherein the change-area type for an area event triggered positioning indicates entering to the event area, leaving the event area, or staying at the event area;

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

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

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

receiving, by a third server from the SET, a POS INIT message to allow the SET to start a positioning session with the third server when a comparison of a current area-id and one of the area ids satisfies a positioning session start condition, wherein the POS INIT message includes a session-id, lid, and SET capabilities;

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

sending, by the third server to the SET, a SUPL REPORT message that includes 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 calculated 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, by the third server from the SET, a SUPL END message,

wherein the first server is a H-SLP (Home SUPL Location Platform), the second server is a V-SLC (Visited SUPL Location Center), and the third server is a V-SPC (Visited SUPL Positioning Center), 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 trigger type indicator is an area event.

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

4. 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).

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger type indicator and the trigger parameters included in the SUPL TRIGGERED START message are separate and different parameters from each other.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the trigger type indicator and the trigger parameters additionally included in the SUPL TRIGGERED START message are separate and different parameters from the session-id, the SET capabilities, and the lid included in the SUPL TRIGGERED START message.

5. A SUPL (Secure User Plane Location) Enabled Terminal (SET)-initiated area event triggered positioning method in a mobile communication system having a home network and a visited network that support roaming of the SET having a SUPL Agent, the method comprising:

sending, 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 for indicating an area event, a location identifier (lid), and trigger parameters,

wherein the trigger parameters include trigger conditions indicating a change-area type for an area event triggered positioning, and an event area indicating a name or position values of the event area, and

wherein the change-area type for an area event triggered positioning indicates entering to the event area, leaving the event area, or staying at the event area;

receiving, from the first server in response to the sent SUPL TRIGGERED START message, the SUPL TRIGGERED RESPONSE message to the SET, 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, to a third server, a POS INIT message to start a positioning session with the third 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, and wherein the first server receives the area ids of the event area from the third server through a second server;

performing the positioning session with the third server by exchanging positioning messages with the third server to obtain a positioning result;

receiving, from the third server, the SUPL REPORT message 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

reporting, to the SET, the positioning result when a trigger condition 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), the second server is a V-SLC (Visited SUPL Location Center), and the third server is a V-SPC (Visited SUPL Positioning Center), 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-SPC if SET-assisted mode exists, or is performed by the SET if SET-based mode exists.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the trigger type indicator and the trigger parameters included in the SUPL TRIGGERED START message are separate and different parameters from each other.

10. The method of claim 5, wherein the trigger type indicator and the trigger parameters additionally included in the SUPL TRIGGERED START message are separate and different parameters from the session-id, the SET capabilities, and the lid included in the SUPL TRIGGERED START message.