Patent ID: 7532894

Claim:
A method in a communication system for providing a location service with geographical location information associated with a user equipment capable of communicating with the communication system, the method comprising: (a) storing geographical location information associated with a user equipment at a first location register of a communication system; (b) checking an indicator stored in the first location register, at the end of a monitoring period, to determine if the geographical location information was transmitted from the first location register to a second location register during the monitoring period, wherein the end of the monitoring period is determined using a timer; (c) if the geographical location information was not transmitted from the first location register to the second location register during the monitoring period, transmitting the geographical location information from the first location register to the second location register at the end of the monitoring period; (d) after transmitting the geographical location information from the first location register to the second location register in (c), resetting the timer; and (e) repeating (b)-(d).