Patent ID: 7992195

Claim:
A requesting entity method comprising: at the requesting entity, requesting location information from a client application, said location information corresponding to a location entity possessing the identity-related information of an anonymous user, while engaged in communication with said client application for performing application-dependent interactions, and wherein said identity-related information comprises at least a pseudonym of the anonymous user of the location entity; receiving the location information from the client application; issuing a redirect command comprising a redirect instruction to the client application, said redirect command suspending the communication with the client application, pursuant to which the client application establishes a connection with the location entity for instructing the location entity to transfer the identity-related information to the requesting entity, wherein the redirect instruction further enables the location entity to recognize the requesting entity; obtaining the identity-related information, the obtaining step comprising: receiving contact from the location entity; providing authentication to the location entity; requesting the identity-related information from the location entity; and receiving the identity-related information from the location entity, wherein said identity-related information does not breach the user's anonymity, wherein the receiving step prompts the location entity to issue a redirect command to the client application using a hypertext transfer protocol redirect and a simple object access protocol; and receiving a connect back from the client application, thereby resuming the communication with the client application.