WO2017041520A1

WO2017041520A1 - Method and apparatus for acquiring location information

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Publication number: WO2017041520A1
Application number: PCT/CN2016/083028
Authority: WO
Inventors: 马伟
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2015-09-08
Filing date: 2016-05-23
Publication date: 2017-03-16
Also published as: CN106507293A

Abstract

A method for acquiring location information, comprising: a network-side device sending a terminal information request to a terminal, wherein the terminal information request carries a designated field, the designated field being used for requesting location information about the terminal; and the network-side device receiving the location information about the terminal fed back by the terminal. By means of the technical solution, the problem in the relevant art that a network-side device cannot acquire location information about a terminal in real time is solved, so that the network-side device can acquire current location information about the terminal rapidly.

Description

Method and device for acquiring location information

Technical field

The present application relates to, but is not limited to, the field of communications, and in particular, to a method and an apparatus for acquiring location information.

Background technique

The acquisition of terminal location information can provide various services for users and networks. Typical location information services include location-based information services such as emergency rescue services, emergency medical services, and emergency location. With the development of the Internet of Things, the promotion of Internet of Vehicles technology and services, the demand for terminal location information is becoming more and more important.

Currently, there are three types of location information acquisition (User Equipment User Equipment, UE for short). One is network-based service, no mobile station assistance, one network-based service and mobile station technology, and the other is Global Positioning System (GPS) and satellite positioning technology such as Beidou.

Although there are many ways and types of terminal location technology, some rely on the assistance of mobile communication networks. However, it mainly provides a specific location information for the terminal, and the network side does not know the terminal location status. With the development of services such as car networking and end-to-end communication that have clear requirements for terminal location information, the need for network location information is becoming more and more urgent and necessary.

However, in the current LTE (Long Term Evolution) network, the network side cannot directly obtain the location information of the terminal, but the terminal will select the network according to the network requirements in a special scenario such as minimizing the road test and the radio link failure report. Report the location information of the terminal. However, the reporting of these location information cannot meet the real-time and fast reporting requirements of the network side for the terminal location.

In the related art, the problem that the network side device cannot obtain the terminal location information in real time has not yet proposed an effective technical solution.

Summary of the invention

The following is an overview of the topics detailed in this document. This summary is not intended to limit the claims The scope of protection.

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and a device for acquiring location information, which can solve the problem that the network side device cannot obtain the terminal location information in real time in the related art.

According to an aspect of the present invention, a method for acquiring location information is provided, including: a network side device sends a terminal information request to a terminal, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request a location The location information of the terminal; the network side device receives the location information of the terminal that is fed back by the terminal.

Optionally, the location information includes at least one of the location information obtained by the terminal through a Global Positioning System (GPS); and the location information obtained by the terminal through Beidou satellite navigation.

Optionally, the terminal information request further includes: a field for indicating a manner in which the terminal acquires the location information, where the terminal acquires the manner indicated by the field by using the field indication location information.

Optionally,

The network side device sends a terminal information request to the terminal, where the network side device sends a radio resource control (Radio Resource Control, RRC for short) message to the terminal, where the RRC message carries the terminal information. request;

The network side device receives the location information of the terminal that is sent by the terminal, and the network side device receives the RRC layer message that is sent by the terminal, where the RRC layer message sent by the terminal carries the location information.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a method for acquiring location information is provided, including: receiving, by a terminal, a terminal information request sent by a network side device, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used. And requesting the location information of the terminal; the terminal feeding back the location information of the terminal to the network side device.

Optionally, the method further includes: the terminal acquiring the location information by using at least one of the following: the terminal acquires the location information by using a global positioning system (GPS); and the terminal acquires the location by using Beidou satellite navigation Location information.

Optionally, the terminal information request further includes: instructing the terminal to acquire the location A field of information manner, wherein the terminal acquires the location information in a manner indicated by the terminal, under the indication of the field.

According to another aspect of the present invention, a device for acquiring location information, which is applied to a network side device, includes:

a sending module, configured to send a terminal information request to the terminal, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal;

The first receiving module is configured to receive location information of the terminal fed back by the terminal.

According to another aspect of the embodiments of the present invention, a device for acquiring location information, which is applied to a terminal, includes:

a second receiving module, configured to receive a terminal information request sent by the network side device, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal;

The feedback module is configured to feed back the location information of the terminal to the network side device.

Optionally, the device further includes: an acquiring module, configured to: acquire the location information by using a global positioning system (GPS), and/or obtain the location information by using BeiDou satellite navigation.

The embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer readable storage medium, which stores computer executable instructions, and when the computer executable instructions are executed, implements the method for acquiring the location information applied to the network side device.

The embodiment of the invention further provides a computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions, which are implemented when the computer executable instructions are executed to implement the location information acquisition method applied to the terminal.

According to the embodiment of the present invention, the network side device directly sends a request for requesting location information of the terminal to the terminal, and the technical solution is adopted to solve the problem that the network side device cannot obtain the terminal location information in real time in the related art, so that the network side The device can quickly obtain the current location information of the terminal.

Other aspects will be apparent upon reading and understanding the drawings and detailed description.

BRIEF abstract

The drawings described herein are intended to provide a further understanding of the present application, and are intended to be a part of this application. In the drawing:

1 is a flowchart of a method for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is another flowchart of a method for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

4 is a block diagram showing another structure of an apparatus for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 5 is still another structural block diagram of an apparatus for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention; FIG.

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a process of acquiring location information according to an alternative embodiment of the present application.

Embodiments of the invention

The present application will be described in detail below with reference to the drawings in conjunction with the embodiments. It should be noted that the embodiments in the present application and the features in the embodiments may be combined with each other without conflict.

Other features and advantages of the present application will be set forth in the description which follows. The objectives and other advantages of the present invention can be realized and obtained by the structure of the invention as claimed.

The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention are clearly and completely described in the following with reference to the accompanying drawings in the embodiments of the present invention. The described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all embodiments. All other embodiments obtained by a person of ordinary skill in the art based on the embodiments of the present application without departing from the inventive scope shall fall within the scope of the application.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a method for acquiring location information is provided. FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a method for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the method includes the following steps:

Step S102: The network side device sends a terminal information request to the terminal, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal.

Step S104: The network side device receives the location information of the terminal that is fed back by the terminal.

Through the above steps, the network side device directly sends a request for requesting the location information of the terminal to the terminal, which solves the problem that the network side device cannot obtain the terminal location information in real time in the related art, so that the network side device can quickly Obtain the current location information of the terminal, and then serve other applications according to the obtained location information.

In step S104, the location information that is sent by the terminal is obtained by the terminal. In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal may acquire the location information of the terminal by using at least one of the following manners: the terminal passes the global positioning system (GPS). Obtaining location information; the terminal obtains location information through Beidou satellite navigation.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the terminal information request further includes: a field for indicating a manner in which the terminal acquires the location information, where the terminal obtains the location information by using the manner indicated by the field, under the indication of the field.

In an optional example, the technical solutions of the foregoing steps S102 and S104 can also be embodied by the following solutions:

The network side device sends an RRC message to the terminal, where the RRC message carries the terminal information request in step S102; the network side device receives the RRC layer message sent by the terminal, where the RRC layer message sent by the terminal carries the terminal Location information.

In this embodiment, a device for acquiring location information is also provided, which is applied to the network side device, and is used to implement the foregoing embodiment and the optional implementation manner. The modules involved are explained. As used below, the term "module" may implement a combination of software and/or hardware of a predetermined function. Although the devices described in the following embodiments are optionally implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, is also possible and contemplated. FIG. 2 is a structural block diagram of an apparatus for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figure 2, the device comprises:

The sending module 20 is configured to send a terminal information request to the terminal, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal;

The first receiving module 22 is connected to the sending module 20 and configured to receive the location information of the terminal fed back by the terminal.

Through the integrated function of the above modules, the network side device is directly sent to the terminal for requesting the end. The technical means of requesting the location information of the terminal solves the problem that the network side device cannot obtain the terminal location information in real time in the related art, so that the network side device can quickly acquire the current location information of the terminal, and further needs the location information according to the acquired location information. Location information application service.

In the embodiment of the present invention, a method for acquiring location information is also provided. FIG. 3 is another flowchart of a method for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 3, the method includes the following steps:

Step S302: The terminal receives the terminal information request sent by the network side device, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal;

Step S304, the terminal feeds back the location information of the terminal to the network side device.

After receiving the request sent by the network side device, the terminal directly feeds back the current location information of the terminal to the network side device by using the technical means, and solves the related art, the network side device cannot obtain the terminal location information in real time. The problem is that the network side device can quickly obtain the current location information of the terminal, and then serve other applications according to the obtained location information.

In an optional example, the terminal acquires location information by at least one of the following methods: the terminal acquires location information through a Global Positioning System (GPS); and the terminal acquires location information through Beidou satellite navigation.

It should be noted that the terminal information request further includes: a field for indicating a manner in which the terminal acquires the location information, where the terminal obtains the location information by using the manner indicated by the terminal, under the indication of the field.

In order to better understand the acquisition process of the location information of the network side device, the following technical solutions are briefly described in conjunction with the following examples:

The network side device sends a message of the UE Information Request (corresponding to the terminal information request of the foregoing embodiment) to the terminal, and adds a terminal location request information field in the UE Information Request message, and the terminal receives the UE Information with the terminal location request information field. When the Request message is sent, the terminal sends a UE Information Response message and adds terminal location information therein.

In this example, when the terminal receives the UE Information Request message with the terminal location request information field, the terminal acquires the location information of the terminal by using the location information technology existing in the related technology, and sends the UE Information Response message and adds the terminal therein. location information. The terminal location request information field may be an enumerated field in the UE Information Request message.

For the UE Information Request message, the terminal location request information field is an enumerated field. When the field is displayed in the UE Information Request message received by the terminal, the terminal sends a UE Information Response message and adds terminal location information. In the UE Information Request message, the terminal location request information field may include terminal location type information, for example, Get the location type of technology for GPS, Beidou, and other locations.

When the terminal receives the UE Information Request message including the terminal location type information, the terminal may obtain the location information of the terminal according to the specific type requirement, and report the information through the UE Information Response message. When the network side sends the UE Information Request message carrying the terminal location request information field to the terminal, the message may also carry the indication information for requesting the speed information of the physical movement of the terminal; when the terminal receives the physical information of the acquisition terminal that is sent by the network side When the UE Information Request message of the indication information of the speed information of the motion is transmitted, the terminal transmits a UE Information Response message with current motion speed information to the network side. Optionally, the UE Information Request message for adding location request information is as follows:

In summary, the technical solution of acquiring the location information by using the network side device may be: the network side sends a UE Information Request message carrying the indication information of the location information of the requesting terminal to the terminal; after receiving the UE Information Request message, the terminal receives the UE Information Request message. The location information of the terminal is placed in the UE Information Response message and sent to the network side.

The technical solution for obtaining the location information from the perspective of the terminal may be: when the terminal receives the UE Information Request message carrying the indication information of the terminal location information, the terminal sends a UE Information Response message carrying the location information of the terminal to the network side.

In this example, when the terminal receives the UE Information Request message that is sent by the network side and carries the indication information of the speed information of acquiring the physical motion of the terminal, the terminal may use the positioning system such as GPS or Beidou to obtain the current terminal running speed information; Need to be in UE Information The location information sent in the Response message may also be the location information that the terminal has activated or triggered by the network side before receiving the UE Information Request message.

Optionally, the UE Information Response message that adds the report of the location information is as follows:

Optionally, the terminal needs to send the speed information in the UE Information Response message, or the speed information that the terminal has periodically or actively triggered by the network side before receiving the UE Information Request message.

It should be noted that, for the foregoing method embodiments, for the sake of simple description, they are all expressed as a series of action combinations, but those skilled in the art should understand that the present application is not limited by the described action sequence, because In accordance with the present application, certain steps may be performed in other sequences or concurrently. Secondly, those skilled in the art should also know that the embodiments described in the specification belong to In alternative embodiments, the actions and modules involved are not necessarily required by the present application.

In this embodiment, a device for acquiring location information is provided, which is applied to the terminal, and is used to implement the foregoing embodiment and the optional implementation manner. The module is explained. As used below, the term "module" may implement a combination of software and/or hardware of a predetermined function. Although the devices described in the following embodiments are optionally implemented in software, hardware, or a combination of software and hardware, is also possible and contemplated. FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing another structure of an apparatus for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in Figure 4, the device comprises:

The second receiving module 40 is configured to receive a terminal information request sent by the network side device, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal;

The feedback module 42 is connected to the second receiving module 40 and configured to feed back the location information of the terminal to the network side device.

After receiving the request sent by the network side device, the terminal directly feeds back the current location information of the terminal to the network side device after receiving the request sent by the network side device, and adopts the technical means to solve the related technology, the network side device cannot obtain the real-time information. The problem of the location information of the terminal enables the network side device to quickly obtain the current location information of the terminal, and further services other applications according to the obtained location information.

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of still another structure of the device for acquiring location information according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 5, the device further includes: an obtaining module 44 connected to the feedback module 42 and configured to pass a global positioning system (GPS). Obtain location information, and/or obtain location information through Beidou satellite navigation.

In the implementation process, the terminal information request received by the second receiving module 40 further includes: a field for indicating a manner in which the terminal acquires the location information, where the terminal obtains the location information by using the manner indicated by the terminal, under the indication of the field .

The above technical solutions are described in detail below in conjunction with alternative embodiments.

The optional embodiment provides a method for acquiring the physical location information of the terminal by the network side. FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of the process for acquiring the location information according to an alternative embodiment. As shown in FIG. 6, the process includes the following steps:

Step S602: The network side sends a UE Information Request message to the target terminal, where The UE Information Request message carries an indication for acquiring GPS location information.

Step S604: When the terminal receives the UE Information Request message, the terminal detects that the message carries the indication information of the location information, and the terminal acquires the GPS location information of the current terminal by using the GPS module.

Step S606: After acquiring the GPS location information, the terminal carries the GPS location information in the UE Information Response message that needs to be sent to the network side, and sends the GPS location information to the network side.

The location information indicating cell in the foregoing UE Information Request message may also be a Beidou, or other positioning system/technical information, a location information indicating cell in the UE Information Request message, or an unknown specific positioning technology/system. The technical method for the terminal to acquire the GPS location letter can be implemented by the GPS technology involved in the positioning technology standard in the related 3GPP (Third Generation Partnership Project).

The location information carried in the UE Information Request message sent by the network side indicates that the cell is a Beidou or other positioning system/technology. After receiving the message, the terminal acquires the location information of the terminal through the corresponding positioning system/technology.

The technical method for obtaining the location information corresponding to the Beidou location information or other positioning technologies by the terminal may be implemented by the Beidou technology or other positioning technologies involved in the positioning technology standard in the related 3GPP.

When a specific positioning technology/system is not specified in the cell requesting the location information carried in the UE Information Request message sent by the network side, the terminal independently selects a positioning technology/system to obtain the location information.

In summary, the embodiment of the present invention solves the problem that the network side device cannot obtain the terminal location information in real time in the related art, so that the network side device can quickly acquire the current location information of the terminal, and further obtain the location information according to the acquired location information. Application service.

In another embodiment, software is also provided for performing the technical solutions described in the above embodiments and alternative embodiments.

In another embodiment, a computer readable storage medium is provided, wherein the software includes, but is not limited to, an optical disk, a floppy disk, a hard disk, and an erasable Memory, etc.

It should be noted that the terms "first", "second" and the like in the specification and claims of the present application and the above-mentioned drawings are used to distinguish similar objects, and are not necessarily used to describe a specific order or order. It is to be understood that the objects so used are interchangeable, where appropriate, so that the embodiments of the present application described herein can be implemented in a sequence other than those illustrated or described herein. In addition, the terms "comprises" and "comprising" and any variants thereof are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, for example, a process, method, system, product, or device that comprises a series of steps or units is not necessarily limited to Those steps or units may include other steps or units not explicitly listed or inherent to such processes, methods, products or devices.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the above-described modules or steps of the present application can be implemented by a general-purpose computing device, which can be centralized on a single computing device or distributed over a network of multiple computing devices. They may be implemented by program code executable by the computing device such that they may be stored in the storage device for execution by the computing device and, in some cases, may be performed in a different order than that illustrated herein. Or the steps described, either separately as a single integrated circuit module, or as a single integrated circuit module. Thus, the application is not limited to any particular combination of hardware and software.

The above description is only an optional embodiment of the present application, and is not intended to limit the present application, and various changes and modifications may be made to the present application. Any modifications, equivalent substitutions, improvements, etc. made within the spirit and principles of this application are intended to be included within the scope of the present application.

Industrial applicability

The embodiment of the present invention provides a method and an apparatus for acquiring location information, which solves the problem that the network side device cannot obtain the terminal location information in real time in the related art, so that the network side device can quickly acquire the current location information of the terminal.

Claims

A method for obtaining location information includes:

The network side device sends a terminal information request to the terminal, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal;

The network side device receives location information of the terminal that is fed back by the terminal.
The method according to claim 1, wherein the terminal information request further includes: a field for indicating a manner in which the terminal acquires the location information, wherein the terminal adopts the indication under the field The location information is obtained in the manner indicated by the field.
The method of claim 1 wherein

The network side device sends a terminal information request to the terminal, including:

The network side device sends a radio resource control RRC message to the terminal, where the RRC message carries the terminal information request;

Receiving, by the network side device, location information of the terminal that is fed back by the terminal, including:

The network side device receives the RRC layer message sent by the terminal, where the RRC layer message sent by the terminal carries the location information.
The method according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the location information comprises at least one of the following:

The location information obtained by the terminal through a global positioning system (GPS);

The location information obtained by the terminal through Beidou satellite navigation.
A method for obtaining location information includes:

Receiving, by the terminal, a terminal information request sent by the network side device, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal;

The terminal feeds back the location information of the terminal to the network side device.
The method of claim 5, the method further comprising: the terminal obtaining the location information in at least one of the following ways:

The terminal acquires the location information by using a global positioning system (GPS);

The terminal acquires the location information through Beidou satellite navigation.
The method according to claim 5 or 6, wherein the terminal information request further includes: a field for indicating a manner in which the terminal acquires the location information, wherein the terminal is instructed by the field, The location information is obtained in the manner indicated by the field.
A device for acquiring location information, which is applied to a network side device, and includes:

a sending module, configured to send a terminal information request to the terminal, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal;

The first receiving module is configured to receive location information of the terminal fed back by the terminal.
A device for acquiring location information, which is applied to a terminal, and includes:

a second receiving module, configured to receive a terminal information request sent by the network side device, where the terminal information request carries a specified field, where the specified field is used to request location information of the terminal;

The feedback module is configured to feed back the location information of the terminal to the network side device.
The apparatus of claim 9, the apparatus further comprising: an acquisition module configured to acquire the location information via a global positioning system GPS, and/or to acquire the location information via Beidou satellite navigation.