Patent ID: 8548424

Claim:
A method for geotagging an image in a wireless mobile telecommunications network, the method comprising: receiving a digital multimedia message at a Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC), the digital multimedia message being a multimedia messaging service (MMS) message, the digital multimedia message transmitted by a user equipment (UE); determining that the digital multimedia message bears image data, the determination made via an image detector element onboard the MMSC which detects the image data in the MMS message; and sending the digital multimedia message to a geotagger in response to detecting the image data, wherein the geotagger submits a Location-Based Services (LBS) query to a network element of the wireless mobile telecommunications network via a LBS query generator onboard the geotagger, receives a reply from the network element including the geographic location of the UE, and modifies data of the digital multimedia message to include a tag indicating the geographic location.