Patent ID: 8670787

Claim:
A method of providing mobile device location information of a called party to a calling party during a call set-up, the method comprising: creating a database of mobile communication device subscribers to a location service; maintaining a location database of current geographic location information for a mobile communication device associated with each of the mobile communication device subscribers to the location service; upon receiving an incoming call from the calling party to a mobile communication device of the called party, verifying, using the database of mobile communication device subscribers, if the mobile communication device of the called party is subscribed to the location service; if the mobile communication device of the called party is subscribed to the location service, ascertaining a current location of the mobile communication device of the called party from the location database; transmitting the current location of the mobile communication device of the called party to the calling party during the call set-up; and transmitting speed and direction information of the mobile communication device of the called party to the calling party.