Patent ID: 8099107

Claim:
Logic for requesting one or more location services provided by a network infrastructure, the logic encoded in one or more non-transitory computer readable media for execution and when executed operable to: access, at a wireless client station, one or more wireless advertisements transmitted by a wireless access point, wherein the one or more wireless advertisements identify one or more location services which an application hosted on the wireless client station can access to receive a location of the wireless client station; populate a data structure maintained at the wireless client station and accessible to one or more applications hosted on the wireless client station with information relating to the one or more location services; present one or more application programming interfaces to the one or more applications hosted on the wireless client station to allow for selection of one or more of the one or more location services; and transmit, responsive to selection of one or more of the identified location services by a first application of the one or more applications, a location service request identifying one or more of the selected location services, wherein the one or more wireless advertisements are wireless local area network (WLAN) management frames, and wherein the one or more location services are contained in information elements appended to the WLAN management frames.