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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2015
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Pramodh D. Narayan, Naperville, IL (US);
Sri Ramanathan, Lutz, FL (US);
Matthew A. Terry, Celebration, FL (US);
Matthew B. Trevathan, Roswell, GA (US);
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method is provided to determine location information of a portable computing device and, in particular, to a secure and scalable system and method of decoupling and exposing handset originated location information to third parties. The system includes a location platform to determine location information of a remote user, and an encryption service configured to secure the location information of the remote user and send the secure location information to a content provider.