Patent ID: 7904096

Claim:
A method for locating an electronic device, comprising: receiving a first request from an end user device, wherein said first request includes an identifier that specifically identifies a particular electronic device; determining, in response to said first request, a rough position of said electronic device based on information received from a base station network; selecting a GPS application server from a plurality of GPS application servers based on said rough position, wherein said GPS application server is the nearest of said GPS application servers to said rough position and wherein a geographic position of said GPS application server is known; and in response to said first request, using said identifier to identify said electronic device in order to send a second request to said electronic device, wherein said electronic device is activated in response to receiving said second request and sends position information to said end user device via said base station network, and wherein said position information received by said end user device is corrected using GPS assistant information obtained from said GPS application server.