System and method for managing location services in wireless networks

Described herein are methods, systems, apparatuses and products for managing location services in wireless networks. One aspect provides a method of receiving in a mobile device an identifier broadcast from a terrestrial wireless device located at a particular position; and using the identifier broadcast from the terrestrial wireless device to determine a physical location of the mobile device even in absence of a logical connection existing between the mobile device and the terrestrial wireless device. Other embodiments are disclosed.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE SEVERAL VIEWS OF THE DRAWINGS(1) FIG. 1 illustrates an example station identity management system.(2) FIG. 2A illustrates handoffs due to W-ID change rate and device mobilityfor two representative values of device mobility.(3) FIG. 2B illustrates representative expected fractions of time that stations will not have calls in progress for two representative call rates.(4) FIG. 3(A-B) illustrates probabilities of collision during a given timeinterval for different wireless technologies.(5) FIG. 4A illustrates a percentage of devices obtaining wrong coordinates from a TLS database as a function of change rate.(6) FIG. 4B illustrates a percentage of devices obtaining wrong coordinates from a TLS database fordifferent change rates for given measurements required to update the TLS database.(7) FIG. 5 illustrates an example multiple resolution location generation.(8) FIG. 6 illustrates an example of mobile devices using broadcast information to localize themselves at different resolutions.(9) FIG. 7 illustrates an example of determining location of a station thatis repeatedly changing identifiers.(10) FIG. 8 illustrates an example computer system.DETAILED DESCRIPTION(11) It will be readily understood that the components of the embodiments, as generally described and illustrated in the figures herein, may be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations in addition to the described example embodiments. Thus, the following more detaile