Patent ID: 8040240

Claim:
A method for operating a mobile station, comprising: determining, by the mobile station, whether the mobile station is electrically coupled to or electrically decoupled from a device; determining, by the mobile station, whether a position location function in the device is active in response to determining that the mobile station is electrically coupled to the device; wherein the position location function in the device performs a position location operation in response to receiving position location data from the mobile station; generating, by the mobile station, the position location data for the position location function in the device in response to determining that the mobile station is electrically coupled to the device and in response to determining that the position location function in the device is active; and not generating, by the mobile station, position location data for the position location function in the device in response to determining that the mobile station is electrically decoupled from the device or in response to determining that the position location function in the device is not active.