Patent ID: 8750784

Claim:
A method for authorizing access by at least one user of at least one service associated with a venue and provided via a wireless network based on a determined location of at least one computing device in the form of a wireless hand held device used by said at least one user, said method comprising: determining, via a wireless signal obtained from at least one VPS device associated with a venue positioning system deployed within a venue, a location of at least one user based on location information obtained from said at least one VPS device about the location within the venue of said at least one computing device utilized by said at least one user wherein the at least one VPS device uses a triangulation method to determine the location of the wireless hand held device within the venue; and allowing said at least one computing device to receive said at least one service from a server over a wireless network based on said location information provided from said at least one VPS device for said at least one computing device.