Patent ID: 8712437

Claim:
A mobile communication device comprising: a positioning circuit configured to determine the geographical position of the mobile communication device; a requester configured to generate a request for information about the geographical position of the mobile communication device; a location management circuit configured to receive an indication of the determined geographical position of the mobile communication device from the positioning circuit; receive the request from the requester, process the request, provide information about the geographical position of the mobile communication device to the requester based on the result of the processing of the request and the indication of the geographical position of the mobile communication device, another requester configured to generate another request for information about the geographical position of the mobile communication device wherein the location management circuit is configured to receive the other request from the other requester and to provide information about the geographical position of the mobile communication device to the other requester, wherein processing the request comprises deciding whether the information about the geographical position of the mobile communication device requested by the other requester and the information about the geographical position of the mobile communication device requested by the requester should both be based on the same determination of the geographical position of the mobile communication device or whether the information about the geographical position of the mobile communication device requested by the other requester and the information about the geographical position of the mobile communication device requested by the requester should be based on different determinations of the geographical position of the mobile communication device.