Patent ID: 8301160

Claim:
A method of assisting in the selection of a visiting secure user plane location platform (V-SLP) for a mobile device, wherein the mobile device is tasked to gather characteristics of a wireless communications network and report the characteristics to a home secure user plane location platform (H-SLP) of which the mobile device is associated, comprising: accessing a network having an associated plurality of location information servers (LIS) and at least one associated secure user phone location platform (SLP); searching for at least one of the plurality of location information servers; receiving identifying information of at least one of the plurality of location information servers; and, transmitting the identifying information and the characteristics of the wireless communications network to the H-SLP to thereby assist the H-SLP in the selection of a V-SLP, wherein the identifying information comprises the uniform resource identifier (URI) of at least one of the plurality of location information servers.