Patent ID: 6088594
Filing Date: 2000-07-11
Classification: G01S,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
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; anda 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.