US 7,321,778 B2
Provision of location information
Jan Ignatius, Espoo (Finland); and Petri Kokkonen, Espoo (Finland)
Assigned to Nokia Corporation, Espoo (Finland)
Appl. No. 10/502,762
PCT Filed Jan. 29, 2002, PCT No. PCT/IB02/00847
§ 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Oct. 12, 2004,
PCT Pub. No. WO03/065753, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 07, 2003.
Prior Publication US 2005/0043041 A1, Feb. 24, 2005
Int. Cl. H04Q 7/20 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 455—456.5 33 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of passing location data within a communication network to a third party, the location data being indicative of a geographical position of a mobile telecommunications device, the method comprising:
determining the location data associated with the telecommunications device;
receiving from the mobile telecommunications device an access request including a destination application and a unique identifier of the mobile telecommunications device;
determining an alias identifier for the mobile telecommunications device;
replacing the unique identifier in the access request with an alias identifier for the telecommunications device;
forwarding the access request to the destination application; and
forwarding the location data with the alias to the destination application, thereby enabling the destination application to associate the access request with the location data.