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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 1999
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Christopher H Kingdon, Garland, TX (US);
Bagher R Zadeh, Dallas, TX (US);
Maya Roel-Ng, Plano, TX (US);
Stephen Hayes, Carrollton, TX (US);
Ericsson Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
A telecommunications system and method is disclosed which avoids unwanted feature interactions while positioning a mobile station that was in idle mode when the positioning request was received by the network. When the serving MSC/VLR receives a request to collect positioning measurements for a mobile station that is in idle mode, the serving MSC/VLR will set an indicator associated with the subscriber to 'busy for connection management due to positioning'. This flag will allow the MSC/VLR to make a distinction between a positioning connection and the normal mark of 'busy for connection management'. Thereafter, when a mobile terminating call arrives to the MSC/VLR for a subscriber that is marked as 'busy for connection management due to positioning', the MSC/VLR can place the incoming call in a queue until the positioning measurements are taken and the subscriber being positioned is put back in idle mode.