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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 23, 2010
Filed:
May. 19, 2006
Karl Georg Hampel, New York, NY (US);
William Michael Macdonald, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Viswanath Poosala, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Karl Georg Hampel, New York, NY (US);
William Michael MacDonald, Lebanon, NJ (US);
Viswanath Poosala, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc., Murray Hill, NJ (US);
Abstract
Location-based services are provided in a communication system comprising at least a portion of at least one wireless network. In one aspect of the invention, particular ones of a plurality of mobile user devices associated with a wireless network are identified for which sufficient location-indicative information is available from which a general location of said devices can be inferred without performing actual location measurements for said devices. The delivery of location queries to the identified mobile user devices is prevented, such that a number of location queries required for provision of a given location-based service is reduced relative to a number of location queries which would otherwise be required without the delivery prevention.