Patent ID: 8195817
Filing Date: 2012-06-05
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of operating a wireless communication network having a public key and a private key to authenticate a geographic location of a wireless communication device, the method comprising: obtaining the geographic location of the wireless communication device and authenticating the geographic location to create authenticated location information for the wireless communication device; digitally signing the authenticated location information with the private key for the wireless communication network to create digitally-signed and authenticated location information for the wireless communication device; wirelessly transferring the digitally-signed and authenticated location information to the wireless communication device; wirelessly receiving the digitally-signed and authenticated location information from the wireless communication device for delivery to a service node; and transferring the digitally-signed and authenticated location information for delivery to the service node, wherein the service node processes the digitally-signed and authenticated location information and the public key for the wireless communication network to identify the geographic location of the wireless communication device.