Patent ID: 8036681
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A location based notification method in a H-SLP (Home-SUPL (Secure User Plane) Location Platform) for calculating and providing a location of a roaming terminal according to a client's request, the method comprising: receiving, by the H-SLP, a client's request for positioning of a roaming terminal; transmitting, by the H-SLP, a SUPL INIT (SUPL Initialization) message to the roaming terminal before a connection with the roaming terminal is established, the SUPL INIT message including a notification mode parameter indicating whether or not a notification and verification based on the location of the roaming terminal are to be performed after the location of the roaming terminal is calculated; requesting, by H-SLP, an initial location of the roaming terminal to a V-SLP (Visited-SUPL (Secure User Plane) Location Platform) thereby to receive the initial location of the roaming terminal; performing, by the H-SLP, a positioning process to calculate the location of the roaming terminal if a required quality for the received initial location of the roaming terminal is not satisfied; after the location of the roaming terminal is calculated through the positioning process, transmitting, by the H-SLP, a SUPL NOTIFY message including a notification element to the roaming terminal if the notification mode parameter indicates that the notification and verification based on the location of the roaming terminal are to be performed; receiving, by the H-SLP from the roaming terminal in response to the SUPL NOTIFY message, a SUPL NOTIFY RESPONSE message that includes a verification indicating whether to allow or not allow a provision of the calculated location of the roaming terminal to the client; and transmitting, by the H-SLP, the calculated location of the roaming terminal in response to the received SUPL NOTIFY RESPONSE message when the received SUPL NOTIFY RESPONSE message includes the verification indicating to allow the provision of the calculated location of the roaming terminal to the client.