Patent ID: 7336942

Claim:
A network-independent location-aware protocol for communicating with location-aware wireless mobile devices, the network-independent location-aware protocol stored as data bits in a pre-determined format on a computer readable medium encoded with a computer program, comprising: a location-aware management message for sending and receiving management messages to and from location-aware wireless mobile devices; a location-aware event message for sending and receiving emergency or non-emergency event messages to and from location-aware wireless mobile devices, wherein the location-aware event message accepts alert information from a plurality of information sources on an information repository, wherein the information repository is in communications with the plurality of information sources via an information network, wherein the alert information is generated from emergency or non-emergency events, and wherein the alert information includes information emergency or non-emergency events for a specific geographic area, and wherein the accepted alert information is formatted into a network-independent location-aware protocol message; and a location-aware commerce message for sending and receiving commerce messages to and from location-aware wireless mobile devices; wherein the network-independent location-aware protocol messages can be simultaneously transmitted over a plurality of different types of wireless transport networks for a plurality of different types of location-aware mobile devices in a plurality of different locations in a specific geographic area, wherein the location-aware management message, the location-aware event message and the location-aware commerce message are stored as data bits in a pre-determined format comprising a network-independent location-aware protocol to support and deliver location-aware services over a wireless or wired transport network transparently regardless of the actual networking protocols being used on the wireless or wired transport network, and wherein the network-independent location-aware protocol messages can be sent to a plurality of different types of location-aware mobile wireless network devices in communications with the plurality of different types of transport networks via a plurality of uniform mobile user network message interfaces associated with the plurality of different types of transport networks.