Patent ID: 9313612
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for mobile wireless access point geolocation services proxying for mobile devices, the method comprising: providing, at a mobile wireless access point, a wireless hotspot within a geographic distance of the mobile wireless access point for a plurality of different mobile devices; establishing, at the mobile wireless access point, a cellular broadband communications link between the mobile wireless access point and the Internet; routing messages, at the mobile wireless access point, between the mobile devices and the cellular broadband communications link through the wireless hotspot to the Internet; and, responsive to a request from one of the mobile devices for geolocation data, from the mobile wireless access point, obtaining geolocation data determined by at least one location determining component disposed within the mobile wireless access point for the mobile wireless access point and transmitting the obtained geolocation data to the one of the mobile devices over the wireless hotspot for use by the one of the mobile devices in acquiring location based services from a remote endpoint server over the Internet.