Patent ID: 9572009
Date: 2017-02-14
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a proximity server, a device discovery request from a given wireless device for another wireless device; determining, at the proximity server, whether the other wireless device is located within a same geographical area as the given wireless device is within based on the given wireless device and the other wireless device being subscribed to a same proximity based service and based on the other wireless device being serviced by at least one of a same cell and a same access point as the given wireless device, wherein the device discovery request comprises location information for the given wireless device; requesting, at the proximity server, location information for the other wireless device from a location server in response to determining that the other wireless device is located within the same geographical area as the given wireless device; and determining, at the proximity server, whether the other wireless device is within a predefined proximity of the given wireless device based on the location information for the given wireless device and the location information for the other wireless device.