Wireless application protocol (wap) application location based services (lbs)

A method comprising:

• receiving, at a Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) application server via a WAP session between the WAP application server and a mobile device, a mobile-triggered request for location information of the mobile device;
• terminating, at the WAP application server, a WAP session with the mobile device in response to receiving the mobile-triggered request;
• initiating, in response to the mobile-triggered request, a network-initiated location based service (LBS) request from the WAP application server to an LBS server for location information for the mobile device;
• receiving, at the WAP application server, the location information for the mobile device from the LBS server;
• and
• pushing, in response to receipt of the location information for the mobile device, the location information to the mobile device via a WAP PUSH command.

A Wireless Application Protocol (WAP) application server comprising:

• a memory to store machine readable instructions;
• and
• one or more processors to access the memory and execute the machine readable instructions, the machine readable instructions comprising:
• a receiver that receives a mobile-triggered request for location information for the mobile device via a given WAP session between the WAP application server and the mobile device;
• a location requestor that sends a network-initiated location based service (LBS) request from the WAP server to an LBS server for location information of the mobile device in response to the mobile-triggered request;
• a WAP module that provides location information received from the LBS server to the mobile device via a WAP PUSH command on another WAP session between the WAP application server and the mobile device in response to the mobile-triggered request.