Patent ID: 7412247

Claim:
A method for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a request message sent from a first device to a second, remote device to obtain information on location based services available at the physical location of the remote device; determining a user defined query in the request message; routing the query to an appropriate response service; formulating the response from the response service into a response message; and routing the response message to the first device; wherein: the first and second devices are part of a wireless cellular communication system including a plurality of geographically defined cells; the first and second devices are in different ones of said plurality of cells; the receiving step includes the steps of a user accessing a web site of the response service, formulating the request message, and sending the request message from the first device to the second device; and said request message includes i) an identification of the remote device, ii) a subject identifying the type of information requested, and iii) an action tag indicating the type of lookup query to be performed in order to obtain the requested information.