Patent ID: 7366523

Claim:
A method of obtaining location-based information services, comprising: (a) receiving a resource request without physical location information from an access point, which is in a network of a plurality of access points, the resource request originated by a wireless communications device (WCD) located within a coverage area of the access point, the WCD communicating with the access point over a wireless short-range communications link, wherein the resource request includes a resource identifier in a form of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and an access point identifier appended by the access point, the access point identifier distinguishing the access point from other ones of the plurality of access points in the network; b) accessing a location manager database remote from the access point, said location manager database maintaining an association between a physical location of the access point and the access point identifier, to determine the physical location of the access point that corresponds with the received access point identifier the physical location being assigned to the WCD communicating with the access point, as representing the physical location of the WCD; c) appending the physical location at the location manager database, into the URL of the resource request; and d) forwarding the appended resource request to a data network for receipt by a content server identified by the URL.