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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Feb. 25, 2005
Michelle Hao Xiong, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Eric J. Hefner, Gurnee, IL (US);
Michelle Hao Xiong, Vernon Hills, IL (US);
Eric J. Hefner, Gurnee, IL (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for suppressing subsequent re-request of a location request, for example a MO-LR request in a GSM communication system, by a mobile station (MS) () to the network. The method in the mobile station comprises transmitting () a location request message to a network. Then, at the MS, determining () that the network can not provide the requested location information. Creating () an indicator in a memory of the device that the network is not capable of providing the requested location information and finally suspending () subsequent transmission of location request message to the network.