Patent ID: 7885644

Claim:
A method for providing a location of a user equipment (UE) in a first communication system comprising an access point and a network controller, the network controller communicatively coupling the UE through the access point to a second communication system comprising a licensed radio access network and a core network, the method comprising: at the core network of the second communication system, receiving a service request from the UE through the network controller; at the core network of the second communication system, receiving a first parameter from the network controller for retrieving, from a database, a civic address associated with a location of the access point; retrieving said civic address from the database using said first parameter; storing the civic address in the core network of the second communication system; and sending a second parameter from the core network of the second communication system to a provider of the requested service, the second parameter for retrieving the civic address from the core network of the second communication system.