Patent ID: 8024186

Claim:
An apparatus for location based interaction with a device over a network of connected computers, the apparatus comprising: a processor; and at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium accessible by the processor, the computer readable storage medium having instructions stored thereon, wherein the stored instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to: determine that a location of a user device is needed to deliver content to the user device, wherein the content is provided by one or more content sources coupled to the apparatus, wherein the apparatus is coupled to the user device over a network, wherein the network comprises a base station, and wherein the apparatus functions as a media bridge interfacing between the one or more content sources and the network; prepare and send a set of instructions from the apparatus to the user device over the network, the set of instructions executing on the user device cause the user device to perform a set of actions to: instruct a media application executing on the user device to make a request to a gateway associated with the base station, the request based on a communications protocol; receive a response to the request from the gateway, the response comprising a header in accordance with the communications protocol; parse the header of the response to the request to determine the location of the user device; and return the location of the user device to the apparatus over the network; tailor the content provided by the one or more content sources to the location of the user device; and provide the tailored content from the apparatus to the user device over the network based on the location of the user device; wherein the at least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium further comprises instructions translatable by the processor to: associate one or more regions with the user device based on the location of the user device; receive a request for content from the user device; and determine if the requested content should be provided to the user device based on the one or more regions, wherein determining if the requested content should be provided to the user device is based on a default rule and a set of exceptions associated with the requested content.