Patent ID: 9432843
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for anonymizing location information of a mobile device, comprising: intercepting, by a mobile device, a request for access to actual location information of the mobile device made by an application; redirecting, by the mobile device, the request to a trusted edge server; obfuscating, by the trusted edge server, the location information based on a location of one or more other mobile devices proximal to the mobile device to generate obfuscated location information, wherein the one or more other mobile devices are selected based on a similarity between a user profile associated with the mobile device and user profiles associated with the one or more other mobile devices; returning, by the trusted edge server, the obfuscated location information to the mobile device; and sending, by the mobile device, the obfuscated location information to the application in place of the requested location information.