Abstract: There is disclosed a mobile station locating system for use in a wireless network comprising a group of base stations that communicate with mobile stations. The mobile station locating system comprises: 1) a timer for measuring a first round trip delay time between a position locator message transmitted from the first base station to the first mobile station and a position locator acknowledgment message transmitted from the first mobile station back to the first base station; 2) a power monitor for measuring a power level of the position locator acknowledgment message received by the first base station and determining that the received power level has saturated a receiver in the first base station; and 3) a data processor coupled to the timer and to the power monitor that causes the first base station to transmit power control messages to the first mobile station. The power control messages cause the first mobile station to increase the transmission power level of the position locator acknowledgment message.

Abstract: There is disclosed, for use in a wireless network comprising a plurality of base stations communicating with mobile devices, an apparatus for establishing a call connection between a mobile device and one of the base stations (BS). The apparatus comprises a message control processor that receives from one or more base stations cell information messages transmitted by the mobile station. Each cell information message contains cell ID data identifying the base station(s) from which the mobile station is receiving wireless messages. If the message control processor receives a first cell information message from a first BS and subsequently receives a second cell information message from a second BS, the message control processor continues to process only the first cell information message if the cell ID data in the second cell information message is the same as the cell ID data in the first cell information message.