Patent ID: 7885667

Claim:
A method for formulating and processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method comprising the steps of: a user formulating a request message by accessing a website of a service provider and formulating the request message from said website; the user sending the request message 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 from the first device; said second device determining a user defined query in the request message and rerouting the query to a separate, response service; said second device formulating a reply from the response service into a response message, said reply being prepared by the response service and being sent by the response service to said second device in response to the response service receiving said query from the second device; and said second device routing the response message to the first device to provide the first device with information on location based services available at the physical location of the remote device.