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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 02, 2014
Unwired Planet, Llc, Reno, NV (US);
William T. Cooper, Henderson, CO (US);
Unwired Planet, LLC, Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A system and method for providing location information for communications through an access network in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. The system and method involve receiving a communication including a message from an origination device. The communication includes access point information and the message includes an identifier of the communication. The access point information from the communication is extracted and the access point information or geographic data based on the access point information is stored in a database. The message including the identifier is sent to a destination device of the message. The storing of the access point information or the geographic data in the database enables the destination device to obtain the access point information or the geographic data using the identifier included in the message by querying the database.