Patent ID: 7844283

Claim:
A method of providing location based information to a mobile terminal within a communications network comprising the steps of: interrogating a component of the communications network to determine the location of a mobile terminal within the communications network; repeating the above process a number of times over a data acquisition period; generating, from the repeated determinations of the location of the mobile terminal within the communications network, a location profile of time-logged locations for the mobile terminal wherein the location profile of time-logged locations includes segments, and wherein each segment comprises a series of time-logged locations; storing the location profile of time-logged locations remotely of the mobile terminal; and providing location based information to the mobile terminal, during a data prediction period which is subsequent to the data acquisition period, in response to the location of the mobile terminal predicted by using the stored location profile of time-logged locations, wherein the mobile terminal determines its position independently of the location of the mobile terminal predicted by using the stored location profile of time-logged locations, downloads segments of the location profile of time-logged locations to thereby acquire the predicted location stored remotely from the mobile terminal, and compares the independently determined position and the predicted location to validate the location predicted by using the stored location profile of time-logged locations; and wherein if the predicted location of the mobile terminal is not validated, then an exception is declared and if the number of exceptions is greater than a predetermined threshold number, then at least a part of the location profile of time-logged locations is regenerated.