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Providing a service with location-based authorization

  • US 8,831,563 B2
  • Filed: 02/04/2011
  • Issued: 09/09/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/04/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing a service, comprising:

  • receiving a request to provide the service to a device, wherein the device is associated with a subscriber profile that includes information comprising;

    a list of authorized locations, anda maximum number of devices that can be associated with the subscriber profile to access the service;

    determining a first location associated with the device; and

    authorizing the service to the device in response to determining, based on the information in the subscriber profile, that the first location is in the list of authorized locations and that a number of devices accessing the service will not exceed the maximum number of devices.

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