Patent ID: 8364167

Claim:
A method for facilitating delivery of location information for a mobile terminal from a wireless telephone service provider to a web server, the method comprising: receiving a location request at a location authorization function provided by the wireless telephone service provider in response to a web server requesting location information for a mobile terminal, wherein the location authorization function is remote from the mobile terminal; effecting delivery of an authorization request from the location authorization function to the mobile terminal requesting authorization to deliver the location information for the mobile terminal to the web server; receiving, at the location authorization function, from the mobile terminal an authorization response indicative of whether the authorization has been provided to deliver the location information for the mobile terminal to the web server; and when the authorization has been provided to deliver the location information for the mobile terminal to the web server, effecting delivery of the location information for the mobile terminal from the location authorization function to the web server; and wherein the location request includes correlation information that was also provided by the web server to the mobile terminal, and wherein the authorization request includes the correlation information such that the mobile terminal or a user associated therewith can associate the authorization request with a service request provided to the web server based on the correlation information.