CA2354079C

5G,4G,3G

Title

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION SERVICES IN PARALLEL TO EXISTING SERVICES IN GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICES ARCHITECTURE

Application Number:

CA19992354079

Publication Date:

05-02-2008

Current Assignee:

Family ID:

Application Date:

09-12-1999

Declaring Company:

Publication Country:

US

Priority Date:

11-12-1998

Title

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING LOCATION SERVICES IN PARALLEL TO EXISTING SERVICES IN GENERAL PACKET RADIO SERVICES ARCHITECTURE

Application Number:

CA19992354079

Family ID:

Publication Country:

US

Publication Date:

05-02-2008

Application Date:

09-12-1999

Priority Date:

11-12-1998

Current Assignee:

Declaring Company:

Abstract  Abstract

A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for enabling a General Packet Radio Ser-vice (GPRS) node namely a Serving GPRS Sup-port Node (SGSN) within a cellular network to be able to handle requests for Location Services (LCS) for a GPRS mobile station (MS) in paral-lel to other existing transactions such as delivering short messages or engaging in session management activity e.g. data call connection. A new LCS transaction type can be introduced in the Connec-tion-Management (CM) sub-layer of GPRS in the SGSN and the GPRS MSs to handle requests for LCS in parallel to other offered services. LCS can be multiplexed together with other existing func-tions in GPRS by allocating a new Service Access Point Identifier (SAPI) to LCS within the Logical Link Control (LLC) sub-layer of the GPRS. Alter-natively when a common LLC SAPI is used be-tween different CM-sublayer functionsthen a dif-ferent protocol discriminator (PD) can be allocated for LCS.

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