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Method and arrangement for locating a mobile station in a packet-switched network and a mobile station utilizing said method

US7450951B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateMay 23, 2002
Grant dateNov 11, 2008
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Expiry dateJun 23, 2024

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L69/329
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and arrangement whereby the location of a mobile station (MS, 101) operated in a packet-switched (GPRS) connection can be defined. For the duration of the location measurements, the GPRS mobile station is switched to a circuit-switched connection in the cellular network (11). The invention also comprises the transmission of the accurate map data related to the mobile station as WAP pages to the mobile station for display.

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