Patent ID: 8818412

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of aggregating and disseminating location requests comprising: establishing a user account for a user, wherein establishing the user account comprises receiving identifying information of the user from the user; associating a user identifier with the user account; receiving from a remote application server a request for the user identifier; receiving from the user an identifier request authorization to provide the user identifier to the remote application server; providing the user identifier to the remote application server in response to receiving the identifier request authorization; receiving mobile device location information of a user mobile device associated with the user identifier from at least one of the user mobile device and a remote telecommunication carrier server; receiving from the remote application server a request for the mobile device location information of the user mobile device associated with the user identifier; receiving a location request authorization from the user to provide the mobile device location information; and providing the user mobile device location to the remote application server in response to receiving the location request authorization from the user.