Remote location based services

• US 7,412,247 B2
• Filed: 06/18/2004
• Issued: 08/12/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Hughes, Ian
• Primary Examiner(s): Eng; George
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bhattacharya; Sam
• Application Number:
  US10/871,915
• Publication Number:
  US 20050003834A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,516 Days
• Field of Search: 455/414.1, 455/414.2, 455/410, 455/411, 455/432.1, 455/432.2, 455/435, 455/456.1, 455/456.3
• US Class Current: 455/456.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/02 Services making use of location information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services

Abstract

The invention relates to a method, system and service for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method has the steps of receiving a request message to obtain information on location based services available at the physical location of the remote device from the first device, determining a user defined query in the request message, routing the query to an appropriate response service, formulating the response from the response service into a response message, and routing the response message to the first device.

Claims

1. A method for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a request message sent 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;

determining a user defined query in the request message;

routing the query to an appropriate response service;

formulating the response from the response service into a response message; and

routing the response message to the first device;

wherein;

the first and second devices are part of a wireless cellular communication system including a plurality of geographically defined cells;

the first and second devices are in different ones of said plurality of cells;

the receiving step includes the steps of

a user accessing a web site of the response service, formulating the request message, and sending the request message from the first device to the second device; and

said request message includes

i) an identification of the remote device,

ii) a subject identifying the type of information requested, and

iii) an action tag indicating the type of lookup query to be performed in order to obtain the requested information.