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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 14, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 07, 2009
Jay Daryl Rector, Loganville, GA (US);
John Potts Davis, Iii, Marietta, GA (US);
Justin Michael Anthony Mcnamara, Atlanta, GA (US);
Jay Daryl Rector, Loganville, GA (US);
John Potts Davis, III, Marietta, GA (US);
Justin Michael Anthony McNamara, Atlanta, GA (US);
AT&T Mobility II LLC, Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed which authorize applications to access location-determining technologies on user devices and on service provider networks. An A-GPS agent resident on the device acts as an interface between applications requesting access to the user's location from the A-GPS chipset and helps to coordinate connections between the A-GPS chipset and the Assistance Server. Introduced into the network maintained by the service provider is a verification server running an application identification engine which determines if the request for preliminary location information engendered by the requesting application is approved.