Appeal No. 2005-2719 Application No. 09/887,630 The Invention The invention relates to location services for use with General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). See page 1 of appellants’ specification. Location messages are transmitted between location servers and mobile stations in a GPRS system via a base station and a serving GPRS support node. See page 3 of appellants’ specification and figure 1. Claim 1 is representative of the invention and is reproduced below: 1. A method of transmitting a location service message between a location server and a mobile station in a packet data network, said method comprising: transmitting said location service message from said location server to a base station subsystem; forwarding said location message from said base station subsystem to a serving GPRS support node; and forwarding said location service message from said serving GPRS support node to said mobile station. References The references relied upon by the examiner are: Aarnio 6,522,889 February 18, 2003 (filed December 23, 1999) Haeggstrom 6,167,040 December 26, 2000 (filed June 8, 1999) 2Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 NextLast modified: November 3, 2007