Patent ID: 8217837

Claim:
A Home-SUPL Location Platform (H-SLP) in a system for providing triggered location information, the system comprising the H-SLP and a target SUPL-Enabled terminal (target SET), the H-SLP comprising: the H-SLP for receiving a request message for triggered location reporting service about the target SET from a SUPL agent, receiving a message which includes the target SET capabilities, determining a positioning method currently available in the target SET based on the target SET capabilities, transmitting a message including the determined positioning method to the target SET, wherein the target SET capabilities include parameters of positioning methods existing in the target SET, a currently available positioning method and positioning protocols, and wherein the H-SLP receives a positioning start message, which includes a positioning capability containing information about currently availability of at least one positioning method from the target SET, and determines if the positioning capability is identical to the target SET capabilities when receiving the positioning start message.