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专利名称：System and method for appending location
information to a communication sent from amobile terminal operating in a wirelesscommunication system to an internet server
发明人：Patricia A. Landgren申请号：US08/999291申请日：19971229公开号：US06115754A公开日：20000905
摘要：A location appending system appends location information concerning a mobileunit to a communication passing through a gateway between a wireless network and theInternet, the communication sent by the mobile unit. The location appending systemincludes a gateway interface, an Internet request parsing unit, a location determinationunit and a wireless network interface. The gateway interface allows the location parsingsystem to operate in conjunction with the gateway. The Internet request parsing unitparses communications passing through the gateway and determines which of thecommunications require location information. The location determination unit identifiesthe associated mobile unit and produces a locate request that includes the identity of themobile unit. The wireless network interface forwards the locate request to the wirelessnetwork receives a locate response from the wireless network. The location
determination then determines the location information based upon the locate response.Then, either the location appending system or gateway appends the location informationto the communication. The location appending system may include a database that
couples to the location determination unit which contains cross- reference informationthat is used by the location determination unit in determining the location information.The location information may include a zipcode corresponding to a current location ofthe mobile unit, longitude and latitude information corresponding to a current locationof the mobile unit or other location specific information. The communication maycomprise markup language.
申请人：NORTEL NETWORKS LIMITED
代理人：Bruce E. Garlick,James A. Harrison
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