Patent ID: 7996021

Claim:
A mobile wireless communication device which wirelessly communicates with one of a plurality of access points, each of said access points coupled to a communication server, comprising: a CPU; a transceiver coupled to said CPU; a memory device coupled to said CPU; a location table stored in said memory, said location table providing the physical location and addresses of the plurality of access points; and said CPU determines the physical location of the mobile wireless communication device based on the physical location of the access point to which the mobile wireless communication device is currently communicating by receiving the address of the access point to which the mobile wireless communication device is currently communicating with and using the address as an index for the location table in order to retrieve the corresponding physical location of the access point from the location table; and wherein said wireless communication device's CPU requests services from the communication server based on the mobile wireless communication device's physical location as determined by said CPU; and wherein said communication server remains unaware of the location of the wireless communication device.