Patent ID: 9693184
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of supporting location services and positioning, comprising: receiving a location request from a Mobility Management Entity (MME) at a Location Server (LS) via an interface between the MME and the LS; performing a positioning procedure between the LS and a user equipment (UE) in response to the location request, wherein performing the positioning procedure includes determining whether a location estimate for the UE obtained from the positioning procedure satisfies a requested Quality of Service (QoS); and sending a location response from the LS to the MME after the positioning procedure via the interface between the MME and the LS, wherein the location response comprises information indicating whether the location estimate included in the location response satisfies the requested QoS and information indicating a positioning method used to obtain the location estimate.