Patent ID: 7519373

Claim:
A method of determining the geographic coordinate location of a mobile appliance and providing the geographic coordinate location to a mobile positioning location center (MPLC) without regard to the wireless air interface protocol standard utilized by the mobile appliance in a wireless communication system having plural base stations for communicating with the mobile appliance and a base station controller for managing the plural base stations, comprising the steps of: (a) placing a call request from a mobile appliance; (b) processing the call request at the base station controller on a first interface; (c) detecting a call of interest by monitoring the first interface; (d) retrieving the call request information for the detected call of interest; (e) determining the geographic coordinate location of the mobile appliance; (f) receiving a tasking message from the MPLC over a second interface; (g) matching the tasking message and the determined geographic coordinate location using the call request information; and, (h) reporting the determined geographic coordinate location and identity of the mobile appliance to the MPLC using the second interface.