Patent ID: 8731578

Claim:
A mobile terminal for communicating with a smart card and a location device associated with the mobile terminal, the mobile terminal comprising: a controller configured; to provide terminal profile information to the smart card; to receive, from the smart card, a geographical location request for acquiring a current geographical location based on the terminal profile information; to send a terminal response to the smart card in response to the geographical location request, the terminal response including a value indicating whether the geographical location request has been successfully processed or not; and to send an envelope signal including current location information obtained from the location device to the smart card if the geographical location request has been successfully processed, wherein the controller is further configured to process only one of multiple geographical location requests, based on a receiving order, when the multiple geographical location requests are received from the smart card, and wherein the terminal profile information includes: first information indicating that the mobile terminal does not have a unit for measuring location, or second information indicating that the mobile terminal has an ability to obtain geographical location information from the location device.