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Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 06, 2015
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Mark J. Enzmann, Roswell, GA (US);

Robert T. Moton, Jr., Alpharetta, GA (US);

Samuel N. Zellner, Dunwoody, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 4/20 (2009.01); H04W 8/16 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/06 (2009.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/02 (2013.01); H04L 63/101 (2013.01); H04W 4/20 (2013.01); H04W 8/16 (2013.01); H04L 63/08 (2013.01); H04W 12/06 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01);
Abstract

A location query service is disclosed. The service provides requestors with a location of a device. The service receives a location query from a requestor, retrieves location information associated with the network user, and returns the location information to the requestor. Before returning the location information to the requestor, the service is configured, in some embodiments, to authenticate that the requestor is authorized by the network user to receive the network user's location information. Methods for providing a location query service also are disclosed.


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