Patent ID: 7224979

Claim:
A system for delivering location-based services to mobile clients in a building structure using short-range wireless technology, comprising: a plurality of short range wireless access points adapted to communicate with mobile clients; a location registry for tracking a location of each mobile client; and one or more location-aware service proxies adapted to receive from a mobile client a request for a location-based service and to deliver a response thereto, the response comprising location-based information provided in view of the requesting client's location as tracked in the location registry; wherein at least one of the location-aware service proxies is configured to: receive a DNS request specifying a host name from a mobile client, determine if the requested host name corresponds to a location-based service, and responsive to a determination that the requested host name corresponds to a location-based service, return an IP address of a host of the requested host name located within the same building structure as the mobile client based on the client's location.