Patent ID: 7463895

Claim:
A method for sending an assist information to a terminal unit so that the terminal unit measures its location based on the assist information in a system including the terminal unit, a location information server, a plurality of base stations, and a base station control facility, the terminal unit including radio communication means which receives base station identification numbers from base stations through a paging channel and control means which designates one of the base stations with the received identification numbers as a base station of primary communication, the method comprising steps of: at the location information server, receiving a terminal unit identification number of the terminal unit from the terminal unit; at the location information server, sending the terminal unit identification number, which is received from the terminal unit, to the base station control facility; at the base station control facility, determining one of the base stations which communicates with the terminal unit based on the terminal unit identification number which is received from the location information server; at the base station control facility, sending the base station identification number representing the base station which communicates with the terminal unit to the location information server; at the location information server, determining the assist information in accordance with the base station identification number, wherein the assist information is used to receive GPS satellite signals only from certain GPS satellites at the terminal unit; at the location information server, transmitting the assist information to the terminal unit so that the terminal unit can receive GPS satellite signals only from the GPS satellites based on the assist information; and at the control means, upon receiving an instruction of location positioning after the radio communication means has turned from a standby mode to a data communication mode, operating on the radio communication means to turn from the data communication mode to a dormant mode and receive again base station identification numbers from the base stations through the paging channel, designating again one of the base stations with the received identification numbers as the base station of primary communication, and operating on the radio communication means to send the base station identification number of the designated base station to the location information server.