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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2001
Filed:
Nov. 13, 1998
Theodore Havinis, Plano, TX (US);
Dimitris Papadimitriou, Dallas, TX (US);
Ericsson Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC (US);
Abstract
A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for reducing the unnecessary signaling for positioning requests involving a Mobile Station (MS) when that MS does not respond to paging requests or is purged from the network, e.g., not registered with a Mobile Switching Center/Visitor Location Register. When a positioning request for a particular MS is received at a serving MSC and the MS does not respond to a paging request, the serving MSC sets a “Subscriber Not Responding to Location Services” (SNRLS) flag, which is used by the serving MSC to avoid unnecessarily sending a new paging request for the same MS. In addition, the serving MSC sends a rejection message to a Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC) that sent the positioning request, which includes an unavailable notification indicating that the MS cannot be reached. The GMLC sets an “MS Subscriber Not Present” flag based upon this notification to avoid sending further positioning requests for that MS.