Patent ID: 7672676

Claim:
A method for obtaining the position of a mobile station located in a current visiting network of a communications system including a plurality of networks supporting different positioning protocols, comprising: receiving at a location center a positioning request for the mobile station; in response to the positioning request, the location center identifying a home network for the mobile station; based on said identified home network and roaming capability information for the home network, the location center dynamically selecting from among at least two positioning protocols including an SS7-based positioning protocol and an IP-based positioning protocol one of the two positioning protocols for communication with the home network of location information associated with the position of the mobile station; identifying at the location center the current visiting network of said mobile station; based on said identified current visiting network and roaming capability information for the current visiting network, the location center dynamically selecting from among the at least two positioning protocols one of the two positioning protocols for communication with said current visiting network of location information associated with the position of the mobile station; sending a positioning request to the current visiting network using the other positioning protocol; and receiving positioning information about the mobile station from the current visiting network using the other positioning protocol.