Patent ID: 8032149

Claim:
A method of determining the location of a mobile appliance with positioning determining equipment (PDE) and providing the location to a mobile positioning location center (MPLC) 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 using a plurality of interfaces defined by a first predetermined wireless air interface communications protocol standard; (c) detecting a call of interest by monitoring one of the plurality of interfaces; (d) retrieving call request information for the detected call of interest; (e) identifying the mobile appliance to be located from the retrieved call and channel assignment request information; (f) determining the geographic coordinate location of the identified mobile appliance with the PDE; (g) reporting the determined geographic coordinate location of the identified mobile appliance from the PDE to the MPLC using a second predetermined wireless air interface communications protocol standard, where the first and second predetermined wireless air interface communication protocol standards are not the same wireless air interface communications protocol standards.