Patent ID: 9367632
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. Apparatus for processing requests for location-dependant information received from a communications terminal, comprising: a store of installable programming information for transmission to a communications terminal in response to a request for location-dependent information, the installable programming information being arranged to configure the communications terminal to interact with the apparatus to retrieve information in response to interrogation by the apparatus to identify its capability to report a location, means for generating a request for a location report from the communications terminal in a form appropriate to the identified capability, means for receiving a location report generated by the communications terminal, means for processing the location report such that location-dependent information related to the reported location can be selected, means for retrieving the selected location-dependent information data, means for transmitting the retrieved information to the communications terminal, and means to monitor the location data provided by the communications terminal over a period of time, wherein the means for retrieving data provides updated or modified location-dependent information according to changes in the location reported by the communications terminal; wherein the data selection means retrieves data relating to a region determined according to the speed and/or direction of change of the location reports.