US 12,149,927 B2
Privacy control of user equipment and related apparatuses
Prajwol Kumar Nakarmi, Sollentuna (SE); Åke Busin, Sollentuna (SE); David Castellanos Zamora, Madrid (ES); and Christine Jost, Dalby (SE)
Assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
Appl. No. 17/434,326
Filed by Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ), Stockholm (SE)
PCT Filed Mar. 3, 2020, PCT No. PCT/EP2020/055527
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Aug. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/178277, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 10, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/813,302, filed on Mar. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0167153 A1, May 26, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 12/02 (2009.01); H04W 12/088 (2021.01); H04W 12/30 (2021.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 12/63 (2021.01)
CPC H04W 12/02 (2013.01) [H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 12/088 (2021.01); H04W 12/30 (2021.01); H04W 64/00 (2013.01); H04W 12/63 (2021.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a mobile terminal for verifying at least one privacy profile setting for positioning of the mobile terminal to a location network node in a communications network, comprising:
receiving a request from the location network node for the mobile terminal to provide a position of the mobile terminal;
checking the at least one privacy profile setting of the mobile terminal for permission to provide position information of the mobile terminal; and
determining whether to send the positioning information of the mobile terminal to the location network node based on the checking the at least one privacy profile setting,
wherein when the checking denies permission to provide the positioning information, the determining comprises ignoring the denial of permission and sending the positioning information of the mobile terminal to the location network node.