Patent ID: 9622029
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a second location server for enabling an Over The Top (OTT) service providing node to retrieve geographic location information of a communication device, the communication device being communicatively coupled to the OTT service providing node via a demarcation node, in which the communication device functions as a host device to the demarcation node and is assigned a host identifier, wherein an access to the communication device is via the demarcation node using an organization identifier for the communication device that includes an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the demarcation node, instead of an IP address of the communication device, and the demarcation node maps the organization identifier of the communication device to the host identifier of the communication device to access the communication device, the method comprising: receiving from the demarcation node an identifier of a first location server and information regarding which communication devices that the first location server stores geographic location information for; receiving a location request from an Operator Location Service (OLS) node for requesting the geographic location information of the communication device, the location request originating from the OTT service providing node and comprises the organization identifier of the communication device; determining the first location server by utilising the organization identifier of the communication device and the received identifier of the first location server, wherein the first location server accesses the demarcation node to map the organization identifier to the host identifier of the communication device to obtain the geographical location information of the communication device based on the host identifier; obtaining the geographic location information of the communication device from the determined first location server; and sending the retrieved geographic location information of the communication device to the OLS node, such that the OLS node receives the sent geographic location information and forwards the received geographic location information to the OTT service providing node.