Method and/or apparatus for location privacy via uniform resource identifier provisioning
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsStephen William Edge, Andreas Klaus Wachter
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Abstract
The subject matter disclosed herein relates in one particular implementation to a method, apparatus, and/or system for transmitting, by a location server, a location identifier to a mobile device. The location identifier may be transmitted from the mobile device to one or more trusted entities. Access to a location estimate of the mobile device may be selectively authorized at least partially in response to a request received at the mobile device from the location server including the location identifier.
Claims34
A method, at a location server, comprising:
- transmitting a location identifier for a mobile station to the mobile station;
- receiving a request for a location estimate of the mobile station from an external entity, the request comprising the location identifier;
- and
- selectively authorizing the request for the location estimate based at least in part on the location identifier.
A location server, comprising:
- a transmitter capable of transmitting one or more messages comprising a location identifier for a mobile station to the mobile station;
- a receiver capable of receiving one or more messages from an external entity comprising a request for a location estimate of the mobile station, the request comprising the location identifier;
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- a computing platform capable of selectively authorizing the request for the location estimate based at least in part on the location identifier.
A location server, comprising:
- means for transmitting one or more messages comprising a location identifier for a mobile station to the mobile station;
- means for receiving one or more messages from an external entity comprising a request for a location estimate of the mobile station, the request comprising the location identifier;
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- means for selectively authorizing the request for the location estimate based at least in part on the location identifier.
An article comprising:
- a non-transitory storage medium having machine-readable instructions stored thereon which are executable by a special purpose computing apparatus to:
- initiate transmission of a location identifier for a mobile station from a location server to the mobile station;
- process a request for a location estimate of the mobile station received from the location server, the request comprising the location identifier;
- and
- selectively authorize the request for the location estimate based at least in part on the location identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.