Patent ID: 7574222

Claim:
A location management apparatus functionally located in a mobile communication network, the location management apparatus maintaining a location of a mobile station wirelessly communicating with the mobile communication network, comprising: a communication control configured to communicate with the mobile station, using the mobile communication network, and receive from the mobile station an identification of a transportation on which the mobile station is carried; a location information storage in which the location of the mobile station is identifiable with reference to the identification of the transportation; a transportation location finder configured to identify a communication area where the transportation is situated, based on movement information obtained from a traffic control that manages an operation of a transportation system including the transportation on which the mobile station is carried; and a paging control configured to, when a call for the mobile station comes, access the location information storage so as to find the communication area, where the transportation is situated, determined by the transportation location finder and cause a paging signal transmitted within the communication area.