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Article: Finnish Inventors Develop Location Information Communication System
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 15, 2007
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- Petri Kokkonen and Jan Ignatius, both of Espoo, Finland, Janne Muhonen of Helsinki, Finland, and Sebastian Kraufvelin of Tenhola, Finland, have developed a method in a communication system for location information.
According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a communication system a request for location information associated with a target user is signalled from an entity. Said request contains information identifying the requestor of said location information. A verification is performed based on said identifying information if the target user has authorized the requester to initiate provision of location information that associates with the target ...