Patent ID: 8707458

Claim:
A method of providing location enabled security services in a wireless communications network, said method comprising the steps of: receiving by said wireless communications network a network access request from a mobile network node requesting access to said wireless communications network, said wireless communications network having location-positioning capabilities, said requesting node comprising an electronic device capable of wireless communications in the wireless communications network providing to said wireless communications network information for determining the location of said requesting node; calculating by said wireless communications network a quantitative security value for said requesting, said quantitative security value calculating step comprising: using position information about said requesting node derived from signal measurements for said requesting node received by at least one existing authorised node in said wireless communications network, using a different form of position information for claimed position information of said requesting node received by said wireless communications network from said requesting node; and comparing said claimed position information of said requesting node with an error ellipse on the position of the requesting node; and denying by said wireless communications network access to said requesting node to said wireless communications network if said quantitative security value does not satisfy a specified threshold value for network security.