A method for updating a communication system with location information of a mobile remote unit comprising steps of: (a) receiving a request to provide the location information of the mobile remote unit to an authorized resource and verifying when the mobile remote unit last provided its location information to said communication system; (b) determining that the location information of said mobile remote unit has not been established within said communication system for a time after said verification of (a); (c) requesting that the location information of said mobile remote unit be established after said verification of (a) within said communication system; and (d) establishing the location information of the mobile remote unit; (e) updating said communication system with the location information of said mobile remote unit; wherein the determining of said step (b) further comprises: (i) maintaining a time stamp of when the location information of said mobile remote unit was last updated within said communication system; (ii) using said time stamp to verify that a predetermined time interval has passed since the location information of said mobile remote unit was last updated within said communication system and returning a result of the verification to said communication system. view more

A communication system comprising:</claim-text> a network of signal transmitting and receiving units; a mobile remote unit able to communicate with at least a signal transmitting and receiving unit to establish mobile remote unit location information e network; a pool of signal transmitting and receiving units from the network some of which are pre-authorized to be able to access the location of the mobile remote unit at the network for a time; the system able to accept or deny the provision of mobile remote unit location information to a network resource selected from the pool of preauthorized signal transmitting and receiving units, during said time; wherein the location of the mobile remote unit is continuously tracked during the time that the location is being denied to said network resource selected from said pool of preauthorized signal transmitting and receiving units. view more

A method for divulging or blocking the location information of a mobile remote receiving unit associated with a network comprising:</claim-text> i) receiving a request at the network for location information of the mobile remote receiving unit; ii) ifying the source of request; iv) verifying that the source of request is pre-authorized to access location information of the mobile remote receiving unit at the network; v) querying at the network for location information disclosure instruction for the mobile remote receiving unit; vi) using said instruction (v) to allow or block mobile remote receiving unit location information to the pre-authorized source of request. view more

A method for divulging or blocking the location information of a remote receiving unit associated with a network, comprising</claim-text> receiving a request at the network for the location information of a remote receiving unit; identifying the e of the request; transmitting the request and the identification of the source of the request by the network to the remote receiving unit, receiving authorization at the network to block or divulge the location of information the remote receiving unit from the remote receiving unit; transmitting a response from the network to the source of the request. view more

A communication system comprising:</claim-text> a network of communication resources; a first communication resource able to establish its location information at the network; wherein at least a profile is maintained by the system, said profile ining the identity of a preauthorized resource, identity of the first communication resource and a location access field indicating whether said preauthorized resource identified in the profile should be allowed/disallowed to access the location information of the first communication resource identified in said profile; the system able to use the location access field of a first profile to deny the location information of the first communication resource to the preauthorized resource identified in said first profile while allowing another preauthorized resource identified in a second profile to access the location information of the first communication resource during the time that access is being denied to the preauthorized resource identified in said first profile. view more