Patent ID: 7519052

Claim:
A method provided across a network, comprising the steps of: receiving at a location registrar entity a location identifier and a user identifier sent from a communications device across said network, said location identifier corresponding to said communications device, and said user identifier associated with a user; retrieving a user profile associated with said user identifier received at said location registrar entity, said user profile comprising at least one stored location identifier; accepting a location corresponding to said location identifier received at said location registrar entity as a current location of said communications device if said location identifier received at said location registrar entity matches one of said stored location; and receiving location information from said user if said received location identifier fails to match one of said stored location identifiers, comprising the steps of receiving said location information by any of directing said user to a network operator to provide said location information, receiving said location information verbally from said user, and receiving electronically input location information from said user, and upon receipt, storing said location information with said location identifier and said user identifier received at said location registrar entity in said user profile, said location information being stored as current location information.