Language dependent positioning and signalling
AssigneeTelefonaktiebolaget L M Ericsson (publ)
InventorsIana Siomina, Torbjörn Wigren
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Abstract
Presented is a system and methods for allowing the translation the civic address portion of a positioning message to different languages. The positioning message can be in response to an Emergency-911 call providing much better information regarding the location of the caller associated with the user equipment on a wireless network. The positioning message can contain an indicator of the originating language or a translation of the language from the originating language to the preferred or required language of the destination address. The positioning message can also contain a series of translated messages representing all the languages supported by the wireless network.
Claims28
A method for transmitting a positioning-related message in a wireless network, said method comprising:
- obtaining, by a node in the wireless network, information associated with a language capability of at least one of a plurality of destinations;
- generating, by said node and based on said obtained language capability, positioning information for said positioning-related message, and
- transmitting, by said node, said positioning-related message including said positioning information toward said at least one of a plurality of destinations associated with said wireless network,
- the method further comprising:
- receiving, by said node, a request for location information of a target device, from a client;
- collecting, by said node, said positioning information associated with a geographical location of said target device;
- translating, by said node, said positioning information into a language according to said language capability;
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- generating, by said node, a reply to said request for location information as the positioning-related message including the translated positioning information wherein said step of generating said positioning information includes an information element in said positioning-related message which specifies a language associated with said positioning information contained in said positioning-related message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.