Patent ID: 9516104
Filing Date: 2016-12-06
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. An intelligent router to route a Secure User Plane Location (SUPL) enabled terminal (SET)-initiated SUPL session request to a SUPL server based on SET capabilities, comprising: a global service load balancer (GSLB) to load balance SUPL sessions among a plurality of SUPL servers, wherein a given SUPL server of said plurality of SUPL servers supports a given set of positioning protocols and another SUPL server of said plurality of SUPL server supports another set of positioning protocols, different from said given set of positioning protocols: a SUPL session director; and an enhanced router to; receive a SET capabilities parameter in a SET-initiated SUPL session request to identify a SET-supported positioning protocol; and select a target SUPL server from said given SUPL server and said other SUPL server based on a match between said identified SET-supported positioning protocol and either a positioning protocol in said given set of positioning protocols supported by said given SUPL server or a positioning protocol in said other set of protocols supported by said other SUPL server; route the SET-initiated SUPL session request to said target SUPL server.