Nokia Corporation

Qualcomm Incorporated

Nokia Technologies Oy

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy

Jan Kåll

Ahti Muhonen

Kalle Ahmavaara

Timo Rantalainen

Roman Pichna

Janne Markus Muhonen

Veijo Vänttinen

Jens Staack

Tomi Varonen

Petri Kokkonen

Markus Maanoja

Matti Saarenpää

Michael Mulligan

Jens-Peter Staack

Mårten Lampinen

The present invention relates to a method and system for providing information about stations of a communication system, and more particularly information of stations () that are located within a defined area (). A search can be triggered in a location information service for information concerning wireless stations within the defined area. At least one such access entity () of the communication system is selected that covers partially or entirely the defined area. A location information request is subsequently generated and broadcast in the selected access entities. A response including information concerning wireless stations within the defined area is generated and signalled to the location information service. According to another aspect the system is adapted to provide services for those stations only that have been determined to be located within the defined area.

Service provision in a communication system

The invention relates to a mechanism for providing location information regarding mobile terminals, especially regarding WLAN terminals. In order that the known mechanism for locating users of a mobile cellular network could be utilized for locating WLAN terminals, a location service request concerning a WLAN terminal is received and routed by the same network elements that receive and route location service requests concerning users of a mobile cellular network. However, in the case of a WLAN terminal the location service request is diverted to a predetermined network element, where the access point currently serving the WLAN terminal is identified. The location information corresponding to the said access point is then determined, and the location information is returned as the location of the terminal. The location of the serving WLAN access point thus represents the location of the WLAN terminal.

Provision of location information in a communication system

A manner of invoking privacy related to user equipment in a telecommunications network, involving sending a location service request from a location service client to a location service center. The location service center sends a privacy request to the user equipment to be located, which prompts the user of the user equipment to accept or reject the specific location service request. The user equipment sends to the location service center a privacy request response. The location service center provides the location information to the requesting client if the location service request is accepted in the privacy response, and rejects the location service request otherwise.

Method of invoking privacy on telecommunications network

The invention relates to a method for controlling information provided to a user in a telecommunications network from at least one information provider. The network has identifying information defining the at least one type of information which can be provided to the user. The method comprises the steps of determining the type of information which an information provider proposed to provide to the user; and uses the identifying information and the determined type of information to control if the proposed information can be provided to the user.

Method and equipment for controlling information provided to a user in a network

A method and an apparatus for implementing the method for using and implementing a service-on-demand in a mobile communication system. The services-on-demand are intended to be received by means of a mobile station. The mobile station monitors a cell transmission and receives parts intended for the mobile station from the transmission. In order to use the services-on-demand, in the method the service-on-demand is offered in the cell to all mobile stations located in the cell over a first channel, a registration message (-) is transmitted from the mobile station for registering as a user of the service-on-demand over a signalling channel, an acknowledgement (-) of the registration, indicating how the service-on-demand is received, is received at the mobile station, and the reception of the service-on-demand is started over the first channel in a manner indicated by the registration acknowledgement.

Services on demand in mobile communications system

The invention relates to a method of invoking privacy related to a user equipment () capable of accepting push messages in communications network, which push message is a message a server may send to the user equipment () without the user of the user equipment () asking for it and the server having the ability to be able to act as a push message initiator. The method comprises the steps of: (i) sending a first request for the personal user data from the user equipment () to an origin server () over a first channel (A); (ii) the origin server () sending a request for personal user data to a supporting server (); (iii) the supporting server () sending a push message over a narrow band channel (C) to the user equipment () indicating said request for the user data made by the origin server (); (iv) the user equipment () responding to the push message at least by an allowing message or a disallowing message for the request of data over said narrow band channel; and (v) the supporting server () providing the data to the origin server () at least partly in response to the allowing message, and rejecting the data providing otherwise.

Method of invoking privacy

A method and an apparatus for implementing the method for using and implementing a service-on-demand in a mobile communication system. The services-on-demand are intended to be received by means of a mobile station. The mobile station monitors a cell transmission and receives parts intended for the mobile station from the transmission. In order to use the services-on-demand, in the method the service-on-demand is offered in the cell to all mobile stations located in the cell over a fist channel, a registration message (-) is transmitted from the mobile station for registering as a user of the service-on-demand over a signalling channel, an acknowledgement (-) of the registration, indicating how the service-on-demand is received, is received at the mobile station, and the reception of the service-on-demand is started over the first channel in a manner indicated by the registration acknowledgement.

In a system comprising at least two different domains both supporting location services, the Gateway Mobile Location Center routing the location service requests receives a routing address for both domains, i.e., at least two addresses, if the target mobile station has subscription to both domains. In order to select via which domain the attempts should be first made to obtain the location information of the target MS is found out at least in one domain and preferably in both domains.

Selecting domain for transmitting a location service request

A method and an apparatus for implementing the method for using and implementing a service-on-demand in a mobile communication system. The services-on-demand are intended to be received by means of a mobile station. The mobile station monitors of a cell transmission and receives parts intended for the mobile station from the transmission. In order to use the services-on-demand, in the method the service-on-demand is offered in the cell to all mobile stations located in the cell over a first channel, a registration message (-) is transmitted from the mobile station for registering as a user of the service-on-demand over a signalling channel, an acknowledgement (-) of the registration, indicating how the service-on-demand is received, is received at the mobile station, and the reception of the service-on-demand is started over the first channel in a manner indicated by the registration acknowledgement.

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