Patent ID: 8385289

Claim:
A procedure processing method for packet mode location services in a mobile radio communications cellular system, said system including entities of a base station subsystem (BSS) type, a network service entity (NSE) type, and a serving GPRS support node (SGSN) type, the method comprising: performing a location procedure for identifying a geographical location of a mobile station (MS), determining, in the event of an inter-NSE cell change from a first NSE to a new NSE occurring during the location procedure that is currently being performed, whether the current location procedure can be maintained by the BSS following change from the first NSE to the new NSE, wherein the current location procedure is not aborted when it is determined that the current location procedure can be maintained, and maintaining the current location procedure to identify the geographical location of the MS, wherein the current location procedure continues without being aborted after the inter-NSE cell change.