Patent ID: 11930364
Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL)
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A location assurance gateway located in a data center for verifying a location of data stored on at least one storage device within at least one cell area served by at least one network node of a wireless communication network, the location assurance gateway comprising:
a communication interface; and
processing circuitry, the processing circuitry configured to cause the communication interface to communicate with the at least one network node of the wireless communication network for location information associated with the at least one cell area, the location information associated with the at least one cell area being used to verify a location of the data stored on the at least one storage device, the verification of the location of the data stored on the at least one storage device including using the communication of the gateway with the at least one network node of the wireless communication network to determine whether a physical location of the stored data is within a user-requested geographic area, and the communication of the communication interface with the at least one network node of the wireless communication network including receiving, from the at least one network node, at least one code, the location being verified when the at least one code from the user-requested location verification request matches at least one code stored in a database associated with the network node, the at least one code being the location information used to verify the location of the data, each of the at least one code being configured to be unique to the one cell area as compared to other cell areas of the wireless communication network, the at least one code being a sequence of codes, each of the sequence of codes being configured to be unique to the one cell area as compared to other cell areas of the wireless communication network, each of the codes in the sequence of codes being configured to be unique to a time period, as compared to other time periods associated with a predetermined periodic interval at which each of the codes in the sequence of codes is communicated, the verification being performed by comparing at least one code from a user-requested location verification request to the at least one code stored in the database associated with the network node, and each of the at least one code broadcast by the at least one network node as a short message service-cell broadcast, SMS-CB, message within the at least one cell area at a predetermined periodic interval.