Patent ID: 7308251

Claim:
A method for operating a wireless terminal comprising: receiving an operation request from a user; accessing a plurality of location based access rules based upon the operation request, each location based access rule of the plurality of location based access rules including a location parameter and corresponding authentication requirements; determining a location of the wireless terminal; selecting a location based access rule of the plurality of location based access rules based upon the location; determining whether the user has previously met the corresponding authentication requirements of the selected location based access rule, the user having previously met the corresponding authentication requirements of the selected location based access rule by the wireless terminal having previously determined its location and the wireless terminal having previously received authentication requirements from the user while at the previously determined location; prompting the user to meet the corresponding authentication requirements when the user has not previously met the corresponding authentication requirements of the selected location based access rule; when the user meets the corresponding authentication requirements of the selected location based access rule, satisfying the operation request; and when the user does not meet the corresponding authentication requirements of the selected location based access rule, denying the operation request.