Patent ID: 8838142

Claim:
A method for inquiring position information of a mobile terminal, wherein the method comprises the steps of: a mobile terminal receiving a position inquiry request input by a user, creating a first short message according to the position inquiry request, and sending the created first short message and an ID of the mobile terminal to a server, wherein the first short message has a message header including a first corresponding code capable of being used to identify the position inquiry request, a second corresponding code indicative of the length of the ID of the mobile terminal, and a third corresponding code indicative that a fourth corresponding code indicates a type of short message; the server interpreting the first short message to obtain the position inquiry request; obtaining the position information of the mobile terminal according to the ID of the mobile terminal; creating a second short message according to the obtained position information; returning the second short message to the mobile terminal, wherein the second short message includes the position information in a system-defined format; and displaying coordinates of the position information at a corresponding position on a background map.