KR100407659B1 - Location reporting satellite paging system with optional blocking of location reporting - Google Patents

Abstract

The present application is directed to a location reporting satellite paging communication system comprising a satellite (2), a ground station (4), and a call receiver (8) adapted to determine a global position from these satellites and signals transmitted from the ground station. The call receiver 8 or the callee who owns the call receiver updates the paging network with the global location required by the paging network 6. The caller paging to the subscriber or called party 8 that owns the call receiver will require the global location of the called party. The paging network 6 may disclose or block this information from the caller at the subscriber's request.

Description

Location reporting satellite paging system with optional blocking of location reporting}

Today, paging network subscribers choose where they want to receive their pages. Each time a subscriber's message is processed by the paging network, the message is sent to an area of the world that the subscriber has preselected to receive the page. However, if the subscriber chooses to receive the page at any global location, the cost of sending the page to the subscriber increases dramatically, making the technology very inefficient. For example, if a caller residing in the same geographical location or neighborhood as the subscriber makes a paging to the subscriber, the message is sent worldwide even if the subscriber and the caller are two or three miles away. Other paging systems go a little further by allowing the subscriber to periodically update the paging network to its current global location (activity area) as the subscriber moves from one location to another. Each time the paging network processes a message for a subscriber, the current global location or active area of the call receiver is checked against the area previously selected by the subscriber to receive the page. If the activity area is within the area the subscriber has preselected for receiving the page, a message is sent to the subscriber. When a subscriber moves intercity or intercontinentally, it will need to warn the subscriber when it leaves the preselected area or active paging area. Thus, the current global activity area of the call receiver must be available to the user or subscriber with the call receiver so that the network can be updated with the information as needed. This can only be done if the call receiver or pager has the appropriate means to determine its location in any place around the world.

Today, unlike other mobile communication devices such as cellular phones, pagers are used for a wider range of people because they are relatively cheaper to obtain. The benefits of such a paging system are great for family, friends or business. Individuals sending a paging message can request a global location from which the paging message is sent. This allows the caller to know the global location of the subscriber or callee who has the call receiver each time a paging message is sent. For network providers, the cost of sending a message to a subscriber will be reduced when the page is limited to a specific global area than using conventional blind paging techniques. Subscribers with call receivers have the ability to obtain persistent global location information whenever needed. The subscriber may, in certain cases, obtain location information from a network that informs the call receiver's location or global location of the call receiver and in other cases may prevent such information from leaking to the caller. In an emergency situation, the paging network may provide information regarding the global location of the distressed subscriber with the call receiver.

The present invention relates to paging communication services and systems, and more particularly to such services and systems using satellites.

1 illustrates a global satellite paging network in accordance with the present invention.

2 is a block diagram of a call receiver or pager in accordance with the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of a paging network control station each time a caller requests a global location of a back-out receiver.

4 is a flowchart illustrating the operation of a call receiver when a global position is determined in an attempt to determine if the call receiver is out of its paging area.

The present invention relates to a communication system using a network of signal transmission and reception units and a mobile remote unit or call receiver. According to the system information relating to the location of the mobile remote unit is used. In a first aspect of the invention, a network of a signal transmitting and receiving unit and one or more positioning transmitters for transmitting the positioning information is called a remote receiving unit or call. Communicate with the receiver. The mobile remote unit may optionally provide mobile remote unit location information secured and accessible to the signal transmitting and receiving unit. In a second aspect of the invention, the above-mentioned feature is a terrestrial control station and a terrestrial signal transmitting and receiving station. And a satellite signal transmitting and receiving station. In a third aspect of the invention, the network of signal transmitting and receiving units is provided with means for determining that the location of the mobile remote unit has been requested. Means for placing a signal transmitting and receiving unit in the network communicatable with the mobile remote unit are used together with means for reporting the location of the mobile remote unit. In a fourth aspect of the invention, a mobile remote unit or a call receiver may Positioning information is provided to the network of the signal transmitting and receiving unit together with information that is selectively obtained by the mobile remote unit from the query for the network. The mobile remote unit is capable of communicating with one or more positioning transmitters, and bi-directionally communicating with the network of signal transmitting and receiving units to reveal global locations in the network. This network may comprise a satellite unit and a terrestrial unit. In a fifth aspect of the invention, a method is disclosed for disclosing or blocking the location of a mobile remote unit relative to the network. The method comprises the steps of receiving in the network an authority to block or disclose a location from a mobile remote unit, receiving a request in the network regarding the location of the mobile remote unit and, if necessary, the source of the request. Confirming, sending the request and source acknowledgment of the request to the mobile remote unit by the network to authorize, and responding to the request in accordance with the granting of the authorization. A sensory signal may be transmitted from the mobile remote unit until the transmission of the positioning information has been successfully completed. In a sixth aspect of the invention, a signal transmission and reception unit may be used for position information about the mobile remote unit. A method of updating a network includes providing location information for a mobile remote unit to the mobile remote unit, comparing the location information to a preselected activity area stored at the mobile remote unit, and wherein the comparison is negative. And generating a sense signal at the mobile remote unit. The network may be updated with the location information of the mobile remote unit. In a seventh aspect of the invention, a method of transmitting a message to a mobile remote unit by a signal transmitting and receiving unit comprises: selecting a selected signal transmitting and receiving unit of the network. Constructing the message to include an address, and continuously transmitting the message to a series of signal transmission and reception units of a network. Units with the selected address send the message to the corresponding coverage area. The message is then reconfigured to remove the address of the signal transmitting and receiving unit before being sent back to the subsequent signal transmitting and receiving unit. In an eighth aspect of the invention, the mobile remote unit and the mobile remote unit in advance receive position information. A control unit is provided which is in communication with a network of authorized signal transmitting and receiving units. This control unit restricts access to the location of the mobile remote unit to the network of the pre-authorized unit to the selected line access. In a ninth aspect of the present invention, combining any of the features described above is preferred. Accordingly, it is an object of the present invention to provide an improved communication network. Other and further objects and advantages will be apparent below.

The system of the present invention consists of a space satellite 2 in communication with a ground station 4 and a call receiver or pager 8. The terrestrial transmitter 10 is used to send a page to the call receiver 8. A terrestrial network control station (ground network center) 6 is used to effectively control the activity of the paging network throughout the district. This system will be developed for the call receiver or pager to operate under existing paging systems.

When subscribing to a paging network, the subscriber selects the global area (preselected paging area) to which the paging message is to be received. The preselected area, pager ID, paging protocol, and other related information of the call receiver are stored in the data library of the paging control station (ground network center) 6 for all the pagers using the paging network. The call receiver 8 will periodically determine the global position from signals transmitted from satellite and global communication means. The determined global location will be used periodically to update the network whenever the user leaves the paging area or whenever the paging network requests the call receiver to publish the global location. This will allow the paging network to know the exact global position of the call receiver whenever needed. The received message for the call receiver is processed by the network and sent to the global or active area of the call receiver.

To start the page, the caller can use common communication equipment, such as a telephone, to access the paging network. The caller can add specific code to the paging message so that the paging network can publish the global location of the call receiver after the message has been sent. The caller's message is first processed by the local telephone exchange 9 before being sent to the paging control station (ground network center) 6. This paging control station (ground network center) 6 will be used to control the activity of all networks. Upon receiving the paging message, the paging control station decodes the message for relevant information such as the pager ID and determines if the caller requires the global location of the pager. Other relevant information, such as the paging protocol of the call receiver, the pre-selected or preferred global area for receiving the page, and the current active area of the call receiver, is retrieved from the data library of the paging control station. The paging control station (ground network center) 6 identifies the current active area of the call receiver as the preselected area of the call receiver to receive the page. If the current active area of the call receiver is valid and within a predetermined time interval, a message is sent to the call receiver. If the current active area is invalidated (if the calling receiver leaves the preselected paging area), the message is not sent to the callee and the caller knows about it. If the current active area of the call receiver is valid but the call receiver has not updated the network to its current location over a predetermined period of time, the paging control station requests the call receiver to update its current global activity location. You will encode the message so that it is granted. Because the subscribers of the paging network can only move a limited distance to the air, land or sea within a predetermined time interval, the paging network selects the appropriate ground station and space satellite based on when the call receiver last updated its global position. Send a message to the call receiver at a specific global location. Upon receiving this signal the call receiver will publish its global position.

As the user travels between cities or countries, the call receiver periodically determines the global position from signals transmitted from satellite and terrestrial communications means. This information is used to update the current active area of the call receiver stored by the paging network by the call receiver or the user having the call receiver. The call receiver may also retrieve the information so that future determined global locations are identified for this information so that the active areas currently held and used by the paging network to transmit the page to the call receiver are not reliably updated. Store in memory.

Once the control station has determined where the message will be sent, the control station determines the best way to send this message. By knowledge information about the geographical distribution of both the global satellite transmitter 4, the terrestrial transmitter station 10, and the space satellite 2, the paging control station (ground network center) 6 contains a message transmission sequence. Encode the message whenever possible. The IDs of all terrestrial stations or space satellites to be used in the message transmission chain will be encoded in chronological order and the messages will be delivered to the first terrestrial station. This station may be a ground station which is transmitted directly to the satellite 4 or the terrestrial transmitter 10. For example, after a paging control station encodes a message and determines which station (ground or satellite) should send the message, the message is delivered to the first terrestrial station. The first terrestrial station may transmit the message directly to the satellite or to its coverage area. Successive stations receiving the message decode this message and determine if another station is needed to send the message. If another station is needed to transmit the message, the current station re-encodes itself to remove itself from the message transmission chain before retransmitting the message to the next station. By re-encoding the message, the ground station or satellite station prevents successive stations associated with this message transmission chain from retransmitting the message back to the station. If the ground station or satellite determines that it needs to broadcast the message, the message is sent to the area covered by the station. The transmission chain continues until the last station broadcasts the message and acknowledges a status signal sent back to the paging control station. Upon receiving this signal, the ground control station can inform the caller that the message was sent successfully. Thus, by knowledge of the geographic distribution of terrestrial and satellite transmitters in a paging network and the current active area of the call receiver, the terrestrial control paging station may contain all the satellite and terrestrial stations used in the message transmission chain. Can be encoded effectively. This in turn minimizes the risk of overloading satellite or terrestrial transmitters.

Once the paging control station (ground network center) 6 receives a message from the caller, the control station determines whether the caller has requested the global position of the call receiver. The control station then verifies from the data library whether the location disclosure feature for this call receiver or pager is blocked by the subscriber. Each call receiver has a special code that, when identified in the caller's paging information, allows the paging control station to reveal the global location of the call receiver. If such code is not detected in the caller's message and the caller requested the global location of the callee that owns the call receiver, the caller will immediately be notified that the request is not authorized by the subscriber or callee. Subscribers can change their location disclosure at any time and reveal this information only to those who can get information about their global location from the paging network. The paging network will ignore the user's request and disclose the subscriber's global location only in an emergency.

If the location exposure feature is blocked for any call, the caller is sent a message that the subscriber does not want the current global position to be revealed. If the location exposure feature is active, the control station retrieves the coordinates of the global position of the call receiver and encodes this information before sending it to the caller. This information describes the latitude and longitude of the subscriber, and the messages sent include simpler information such as country, city or town. The steps performed by the control station during this process are best shown in step 1 of FIG. 3. In this figure, the paging control station, upon receiving the paging message, decodes the message and checks whether the message includes a request for the global location of the call receiver. If no such information is requested, the message is processed normally. If a global location of the call receiver is required and a location disclosure code is detected, the location information of the call receiver is retrieved from the data bank of the paging control station. If the information retrieved from the data bank of the paging control station is unavailable or out of date, a request may be made to disclose the current location of the call receiver. If the control station sets the location exposure feature to be blocked for the message, the caller will immediately receive the appropriate message. In processing, if the positional exposure characteristic of the call receiver for the message is active, then the position information of the call receiver is processed and sent to the caller and the caller's message is processed to be sent to the call receiver as described above.

For global positioning, the call receiver is preprogrammed to periodically determine the position from signals transmitted from satellite and terrestrial communication means. Some of the satellite and terrestrial transmitters used to transmit paging information may be used to transmit reference positioning signals to call receivers. Alternatively, a global positioning system, known in the art as Global Positioning System (GPS) as the call receiver, may be used to determine the global position. However, the call receiver must have means for determining the global position from L-band signals transmitted from one or more satellites, depending on the decision technique used. GPS is being used today to provide global positioning information to mobile users across the globe. This positioning information has an accuracy of at least one hundred meters and can be further improved to an accuracy of five meters if the reference signal from the terrestrial transmitter is used in the determination process. Fully operational GPS includes up to 24 satellites distributed around six circular orbits. The distribution and inclination (orbital inclination angle) of these satellites is such that at least three or more satellites can be easily seen in most areas on the earth's surface. In a typical example, in order for the call receiver to determine the global position, the call receiver needs to solve two variables: position, latitude, and longitude. A satellite with an atomic clock acts as a beacon and transmits a signal to the call receiver indicating where it is and when the signal was sent. From this information the call receiver can determine how far from the satellite by comparing the transmitted time with the received time and multiplying the speed of light (distance = speed x time). Since there is a bias between the GPS time and the user's time, a third variable time will be required. Since three satellites are visible at any point, the call receiver can resolve latitude, longitude, and time. Four-dimensional variables and satellites will be needed for three-dimensional positioning. Once the global location is determined, the call receiver or pager can update the network with its current global location, or the call receiver can update the network when the user leaves its active area or preselected global area for receiving a page. Can warn you.

Call receiver or pager

The call receiver (FIG. 2) will receive a message sent via transceiver 101 from satellite and terrestrial transmitters. The connection circuit 102 of the call receiver controlled by the CPU 108 sends satellite based signals to the satellite receiving means 103 via 202 and the ground signals to ground receiving means 104 via 203. Send it. The connection circuit may be provided with a filter arrangement and a switch that allows the L-band or satellite frequency to pass through 202 and the ground or ultrahigh frequency to pass through 203. The signal may be a paging message signal or a global positioning signal. Thus, in accordance with the preloaded protocol and initialization data, the CPU will drive the connection circuit 102, satellite receiving means 103, and terrestrial receiving means 104 to scan and process a particular frequency.

The satellite signal is processed by the satellite receiving means 103. The unit will process global positioning satellite signals and satellite message signals. The satellite receiving unit is a satellite, signal amplifier, mixer, which will convert the L band global position signal and the message signal received from the connection circuit 102 to an appropriate level for effective processing by the decoding circuit (decoder 1) 105; And filters. Satellite receiving means circuits are well known to those skilled in the art. The operation of this unit is controlled by the microprocessor or CPU 108 via 206.

The CPU determines the appropriate intermediate frequency and output signal to be generated by the satellite receiving means 103. It is based on initialization parameters preloaded in the ROM 110 of the call receiver. The CPU controls the satellite receiving unit via 206, and the output signal generated by the satellite receiving means 103 is sent to decoder 1 105 via 205 for intelligence extraction and error correction. Decoder 1 105 is controlled by CPU 108 via 209. It is determined by the CPU that data is sent directly by the decoder 1 105 or decoder 2 106 to the CPU input port via 210. If the CPU determines that the satellite message is of high priority, decoder 1 105 is signaled via 209 to send data directly to the CPU via 210 and decoder 2 106 via 213 to temporarily store the data. Signaled. Decoder 2 106 will store the data via temporary 211 to temporary storage 107 for later retrieval by the CPU. If the ground signal is of higher priority, decoder 1 105 is signaled to temporarily store the data. Each decoder may again have a repository that eliminates the use of temporary storage 107. If the decoder does not have a storage means, it can download the data via 211 to the data temporary store while another decoder is directly transmitting to the CPU via 210. If multiple decoders are required to decode multiple satellite and terrestrial signals (messages and positioning signals), the CPU can re-determine when each decoder should send its data to the CPU's input port, and each decoder Has appropriate storage means for temporarily storing the data until such a transfer instruction is received from the CPU.

The ground signals will be processed by the ground receiving means 104. These UHF or VHF signals will be sent by the connecting circuit 102 to the terrestrial receiving means 104 via 203. Again, the terrestrial receiving means employs a UHF (Ultra High Frequency) or VHF (Very High Frequency) amplifier, filter, and downconversion circuitry to process the signal from 203 to an appropriate level for effective processing by decoder 2 (106). Equipped. The direct transfer of data from decoder 2 106 to the CPU via 210 is controlled by the CPU. The operation of this part of the receiver will be similar to the satellite receiving end. Thus, the CPU 108 controls the operation of the connection circuits, satellites, and terrestrial receiving means. The CPU 108 has the ability to accurately determine when satellite or terrestrial messages or positioning signals are received and processed.

Once the CPU has finished processing the data from the decoders 106 and 107, the CPU retrieves the data from the temporary data storage 107 for processing. As mentioned above, a plurality of decoders may be used. In this situation each decoder has the ability to temporarily store or store the data or use temporary storage 107 until it is signaled by the CPU to transfer the data directly over 210. An associated communication link is added to interface the newly added decoder to the CPU 108, the satellite receiving unit 103, and the terrestrial receiving unit 104. According to this technique, all messages and positioning signals transmitted from satellite or global communication means are finally decoded and processed by the CPU, with little or no loss of messages in the process.

In order to conserve receiver power, the CPU may be preprogrammed to periodically process the positioning signals to control the connection circuit 102, the satellite receiving means 103, and the terrestrial receiving means 104. Only paging messages (voice and text) can pass through in this situation, and the positioning information signal will be blocked periodically. If the received paging message requests the call receiver to inform its current global position, the CPU 108 receives the request from the satellite and terrestrial reference signals before the call receiver resumes normal operation. To determine.

If the decoded message received over 210 by the CPU is voice or text, the CPU warns the user via the display means 114, the warning means 116 or the audio means 111 about the presence of a new message. . The text message is displayed via the display means and the voice message is sent to the digital-analog (D / A) converter 113 to be converted into an analog format by the D / A converter. The analog signal is amplified by the amplifier 112 and the amplified signal is used to drive the audio means 111 (speakers or earphones). The memory means 115 is used to store the message for future replay by the user. These messages are first compressed before being stored in memory. These messages are decompressed in compression before playback or redisplay.

Once the user joins the global paging network, the call receiver is initiated. Relevant data such as paging protocol, frequency, preferred paging location and other relevant data is downloaded into the ROM 110 of the call receiver. As the user moves from one global location to another, this information will be used by the CPU to control the actions of all modules of the call receiver.

The call receiver will have the ability to determine the global position from signals transmitted from satellite and terrestrial communication means. Periodically, the call receiver determines the global position from these signals and compares it with the encoded reference global position coordinates that are preloaded in ROM 110. If the CPU 108 determines that the current global position of the call receiver is not within the user's normal position to receive the page, it is known that the user is immediately out of the paging area so that no paging message will be received. If the current active area of the call receiver is out of the previously stored active area to receive the page, the user is known to update the paging network with that current active area. The network will also ask the call receiver for its current global position. When such a message is received, the user with the called party or call receiver is informed that an update of the network is required. The call receiver will scan through the transceiver 101 for the strongest network communication channel. Once this link is established, the call receiver will automatically update the network with its current global positioning coordinates. If the call receiver does not find an appropriate network channel for direct communication, the call receiver will warn the user that it has not found an RF communication channel to automatically update its current global position. In this situation, the user can update the network by retrieving and displaying its current global coordinates determined by the call receiver. If the user is required to update the network, the call receiver will periodically warn the user to update the network until an input is received via the input panel 109 via 222 from the user indicating that an action has been taken. The CPU 108 will store the current determined global location of the call receiver in its memory as the current active area of the call receiver maintained by the paging network. This allows the CPU to determine when an active area update of the paging network is needed without waiting for the network to request this information. The actions performed by the call receiver during this process are best shown in step 2 of FIG. In this illustration, the call receiver first determines the global position. This request may have originated from the paging network through the input panel 109 from the user or from within the CPU of the call receiver. After determining the global location, the call receiver identifies the location with a preselected area to receive the page typically stored in the ROM. If the preselected area is valid, the call receiver further checks whether the current active area for receiving the page is valid. If the network does not require the call receiver to update its location, the call receiver resumes normal operation. If the current active area of the call receiver is invalid, or the preselected area for receiving a page is invalid, or if the network has requested the global position of the call receiver, then the call receiver may have the most powerful network communication to transmit its current global position. Search for a channel. If such a channel is found, the network is automatically updated. If no channel is found at all, the user is warned to update the network with the current global coordinates determined by the call receiver.

Sooner or later, at any point, the subscriber may use the call receiver or any related terrestrial communication device to activate or deactivate its positioning disclosure from the network. In deactivated mode the network will not disclose the subscriber's global location to the caller requesting this information. The user may ignore the periodic global positioning feature of the call receiver at any time to obtain the current global position through input panel 109. Once the CPU 108 has determined this information and made it available to the user, the terrestrial receiving means 104, the satellite receiving means 103, and the connecting circuit 102 will be signaled to resume normal operation. According to the input panel 109 and the display means 114, an update of the paging network is now made so that with the help of the user who owns the call receiver, it can be made anywhere immediately and without any request from the network at any global location. Relevant information such as' s active paging area, preselected areas, and the current global location of the call receiver will always be available to the user.

Claims (31)

A network having signal transmission and reception units, A mobile remote unit capable of communicating with one or more signal transmitting and receiving units for establishing mobile remote unit location information in the network; A communication system having a pool having signal transmitting and receiving units from the network, some of which are pre-authorized to access the location of the mobile remote unit in the network for a period of time, The system may allow or deny the provision of mobile remote unit location information from the pool with pre-authorized signal transmitting and receiving units during the time period to a selected network resource, The location of the mobile remote unit is continuously tracked during the time the location is being rejected in the network resource selected from the pool having pre-authorized signal transmitting and receiving units. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the network having signal transmitting and receiving units comprises a ground control station and one or more terrestrial signal transmitting and receiving stations and satellite signal transmitting and receiving stations. The communication system of claim 1, wherein the mobile remote unit comprises means for providing location dependent information to a network having signal transmitting and receiving units. The method of claim 1, The mobile remote unit, Means for determining a global position from a signal received from a positioning transmitter, Connecting means for connecting the satellite signal to the satellite receiving end and the ground signal to the terrestrial receiving end; Satellite receiving means for receiving and processing satellite positioning and message signals, and And a ground receiving means for receiving and processing ground positioning and message signals. 5. A communication system as claimed in claim 4, further comprising storage means for maintaining either data from the satellite or data from the terrestrial receiving circuit while the other data is being processed. In a communication system, (Iii) a mobile remote unit located in a first network node or geographical area; (Ii) a network having communication resources, (Iii) some of said communication resources pre-authorized to obtain a location of said mobile remote unit at a given time; (Iii) a control unit located in the second network node, (Iii) the location relative to the mobile remote unit to allow provision of mobile remote unit location information to a given network resource of step (iii) while blocking its information from being released to other network resources at the given time. A control unit capable of utilizing disclosure instructions, The location of the mobile remote unit is tracked within the system, And the control unit may confirm a pre-authorized request for the location information of the mobile remote unit and inquire about a mobile remote unit location disclosure indication in the network. 7. A communication system as claimed in claim 6, comprising means for detecting an absence of communication with the mobile remote unit. 7. A communication system according to claim 6, wherein said signal transmitting and receiving unit comprises a satellite unit and a land unit. The method of claim 6, One or more positioning transmitters for transmitting the positioning information, And the mobile remote unit can establish the location of the mobile remote unit from the transmitted positioning information and selectively provide the constructed mobile remote unit location information to a network having the signal transmitting and receiving units. 10. The communication system of claim 9, wherein the mobile remote unit is capable of communicating with one or more positioning transmitters and capable of bidirectional communication with a network having the signal transmitting and receiving units to publish a global location to the network. A method of publishing or blocking location information of a mobile remote unit associated with a network, the method comprising: Receiving in the network a request for information of the mobile remote unit; Identifying the source of the request, Verifying that the source of the request is pre-authorized to access information of the mobile remote unit in the network; Inquiring in the network about an information disclosure instruction for the mobile remote unit relating only to the source of the request previously authorized; Using the queried indication such that the mobile remote unit information is allowed or denied for the source of the preauthorized request. 12. The method of claim 11 wherein the step of inquiring in the network about an information disclosure instruction for the mobile remote unit further comprises communicating with the mobile remote unit to obtain an information disclosure instruction from the mobile remote unit. The method of claim 11, Providing positioning information regarding the mobile remote unit to the mobile remote unit; Sending the location information from the mobile remote unit to the network. The method of claim 13, Periodically transmitting a sensing signal from the mobile remote unit until the positioning information is successfully completed. The method of claim 11, Providing positioning information regarding the mobile remote unit to the mobile remote unit; Comparing the positioning information with preselected activity areas stored within the mobile remote unit; Generating a sense signal at the mobile remote unit if the comparison is negative; Updating the network with the location information of the mobile remote unit. 16. The method of claim 15, further comprising adding an activity area corresponding to the positioning information to the preselected activity area stored in the mobile remote unit. A method for restricting access to location information of a mobile remote unit in a network, the portion of which has a communication resource pre-authorized to access the location of the mobile remote unit, the method comprising: (Iii) obtaining identification information of the mobile remote unit; (Ii) selecting one pre-authorized communication resource from the network having pre-authorized communication resources; (Iii) specifying, via location disclosure information for the mobile remote unit, whether the pre-authorized communication resource of step (ii) should be allowed to access the location information of the mobile remote unit in the network. Steps, (Iii) exposing the location disclosure information in the network; (Iii) using the exposed location disclosure information in the network to restrict access of the location information of the mobile remote unit in the pre-authorized communication resource of step (ii). 18. The method of claim 17, wherein exposing the location disclosure information to limit access of location information of the mobile remote unit comprises sending the specified location disclosure information to a second communication node in the network. . In a communication system, (Iii) a mobile remote unit, (Ii) at least one first network resource present at a different network node than at the mobile remote unit, (Iii) at least one second network communication resource that has been previously authorized to access the service in the network; (Iii) one or more that can provide the indicated information when the pre-authorized service can be blocked from one network communication resource selected from step (i) for the one or more first network resources for a period of time; A third communication resource, (Iii) the at least one first network resource is the information provided by the at least one second communication resource to block the provision of the pre-authorized service to the network resource selected from step (v) for a period of time; Can be used, (Iii) during the time period in which the access of the service is being denied at the pre-authorized network resource selected from step (iii), the one or more network resources are configured to send the pre-authorized service to the other of step (iii). Continue to provide pre-authorized network resources, Wherein said at least one first network resource provides a pre-authorized service to said mobile remote unit in said network. 20. The mobile device of claim 19, wherein the mobile remote unit can provide mobile remote unit location information to the network, wherein the one or more first network resources provide the pre-authorized service to the mobile remote unit. A communication system that can use remote unit location information. 20. The communications system of claim 19 wherein the one or more second network resources are operable within the mobile remote unit. A communication system, in which a system restricts access to a service based on a pre-authorized location provided to a mobile remote unit by a system, and the mobile remote unit establishes its own location for use by the system. (Iii) a network having communication resources, some of which are capable of communicating with the mobile remote unit; (Ii) at least one first authorized communication network resource that is pre-authorized to access a service based on the location in the network; (Iii) during the time allowing other network resources of step (ii) to access the location based service, the one pre-authorized network resource according to step (ii) At least one second communication network resource capable of blocking access. 23. The method of claim 22, wherein the location based service further comprises obtaining mobile remote unit location information in the network and providing the location information to the one or more first network communication resources. And a resource can operate within the mobile remote unit. A communication system for allowing or denying access to location information of a mobile remote unit associated with a system, the method comprising: A part comprising a network pre-authorized to obtain the constructed mobile remote unit location information from the system and having communication resources associated with the system, The mobile remote unit can communicate with the system to establish mobile remote unit location information, the mobile remote unit having pre-authorized communication resources to access the location information of the mobile remote unit in the network. And allow or deny the provision of the established mobile remote unit location information to one pre-authorized communication resource selected from the network having the same. delete delete 25. The communication system of claim 24, wherein the mobile remote unit is capable of publishing mobile remote unit location information to the system when the pre-authorized communication resource denies access to the location information of the mobile remote unit. 25. The communication system of claim 24, wherein network communication resources can generate a request for location information of the mobile remote unit, and the mobile remote unit can allow or deny the provision of the location information in accordance with the request. A method for transmitting a message to a mobile receiving unit by a network having signal transmitting and receiving units, the method comprising: Configuring the message to include an address of one or more selected signal transmitting and receiving units of the network; Transmitting the message to a first signal transmitting and receiving unit of the network; Retransmitting the message from a first signal transmission and reception unit of the network and from successive signal transmission and reception units of the network to one or more of the selected signal transmission and reception units of the network; Sending the message addressed to a coverage area of the signal transmitting and receiving units; Reconstructing the message to remove the address of the received signal transmission and reception unit before retransmitting the message to a subsequent signal transmission and reception unit. In a communication system, A network having communication resources, A first communication resource capable of establishing location information in said network, Identification of a pre-authorized resource, identification of the first communication resource and whether the pre-authorized resource identified in the profile will be allowed to access location information of the first communication resource identified in the profile One or more profiles maintained by the system, including identification of a location access field in which the status is indicated; The system may use the location access field of the first profile to deny location information of the first communication resource from the pre-authorized resource identified within the first profile while identifying within the first profile. And allow other pre-authorized resources identified in a second profile to access location information of the first communication resource during a time period of access being denied on the pre-authorized resource. 18. The method of claim 11 and 17, wherein the first information disclosure instruction for the mobile remote unit is used to access the information of the mobile remote unit in a first pre-authorized communication resource. The second information disclosure instruction for the mobile remote unit may be subject to a second pre-authorization for a time during which a pre-authorized communication resource is allowed to access the information of the mobile remote unit available for access in the network. A method used to reject mobile remote unit information in a given communication resource.