Method and apparatus for supporting location services with roaming

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8185128
APP PUB NO 20070149213A1
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11564680

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Techniques for supporting location services with roaming are described. A mobile station interacts with a home mobile positioning center (H-MPC) in a home network for location services even when roaming. The mobile station communicates with a visited network for a data session and receives a request for its location. The mobile station sends first information (e.g., SID and NID) indicative of its current network location to the H-MPC. The H-MPC determines a serving mobile positioning center (S-MPC) in the visited network based on the first information. The S-MPC determines a serving position determining entity (S-PDE) in the visited network based on the first information. Depending on the selected positioning method, the H-MPC may receive an S-PDE address or a position estimate of the mobile station from the S-MPC and may forward this information to mobile station. The mobile station may communicate with the S-PDE for positioning using the S-PDE address.

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QUALCOMM INCORPORATED5775 MOREHOUSE DRIVE SAN DIEGO CA 92121-1714

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Burroughs, Kirk Allan Alamo, US 83 1802
Du, Zhimin Beijing, CN 61 681
Khushu, Sanjeev San Diego, US 19 470
Lamba, Gaurav Sunnyvale, US 19 309
Lin, Ie-Hong Fremont, US 43 500
Wang, Yufei Beijing, CN 67 911

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