Patent ID: 7565154

Claim:
A method for transmitting position information of a mobile communication terminal, the method comprising: providing a user of a mobile communication terminal with a choice to transmit a phone number assigned to the mobile communication terminal, or a combination of both a position and the phone number of the mobile communication terminal to a receiving terminal by way of a first base station in a mobile communication network, wherein selecting whether to transmit one or a combination of both the position and the phone number is performed based on user interaction with the mobile communication terminal and independent from any requests submitted from the first base station to the mobile communication terminal for the position information; transmitting the position information from the mobile communication terminal to the first base station such that the position information is not received by the receiving terminal prior to the position information being converted to user-identifiable location data, wherein the first base station independent from any remote server calculates position of the mobile communication terminal based on geographic information data stored in the base station; and establishing a communication session between the mobile communication terminal and the receiving terminal via the base station, wherein the communication session comprises at least one of a voice session or a data session, wherein the calculation performed in the first base station converts the position information transmitted from the mobile communication terminal into user-identifiable location data, wherein the user-identifiable location data is transmitted from the first base station to the receiving terminal to convey position of the mobile communication terminal to a user of the receiving terminal.