Patent ID: 8774841
Filing Date: 2014-07-08
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method of supporting location-based services, the method comprising: monitoring, by a server system that includes one or more processors and one or more memories, communications between a cellular wireless communications network and a data network; identifying, by the server system, in the monitored communications, a location-based-service request for a location-based service from a wireless unit, the location-based-service request not including the location of the wireless unit, the location-based service being provided by a location-based-service provider in the data network, the location-based-service provider being separate from the server system; and in response to identifying the location-based-service request from the wireless unit, causing, by the server system, location information of the wireless unit to be obtained and provided to the location-based-service provider.