Patent ID: 7529236

Claim:
A telecommunications system for benchmarking location determination capabilities for a mobile communications device in a communications network, the system comprising: the mobile communications device configured to: receive a first set of data identifying a location of the device, the location identified with a first technique; generate a second set of data formatted to trigger the communications network to identify the location of the device using a second technique; and transmit one or more communications signals comprising the first set of data and the second set of data; the communications network communicatively coupled with the mobile communications device, and configured to: receive the second set of data through at least a subset of the one or more communications signals; calculate location of the device using the second technique; and generate a third set of data representative of the location identified using the second technique; and a location processing server communicatively coupled with the communications network, and configured to: store at least a subset of the first set of data and at least a subset of the third set of data in a data store associated with the location processing server.