Patent ID: 8301165

Claim:
A method for obtaining user equipment (UE) location information, comprising: receiving, by an interworking function (IWF), a request sent by a UE for obtaining current UE location information; receiving, by the IWF, address information of a mobility management entity (MME) of a core network provided by the UE in a register procedure or register update procedure that is initiated to the IWF by the UE; storing, by the IWF, the address information of the MME; interacting, by the IWF, with the MME according to the address information of the MME obtain location information of the UE; and sending, by the IWF, the location information of the UE to the UE; wherein the interacting step comprises: sending, by the IWF, a request for the location information of the UE to the MME according to the address information of the MME; and receiving, by the IWF, the location information of the UE sent by the MME in response to the request sent by the IWF.