METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING LOCATION BASED SERVICES

摘要

A method of providing a location based service to a device connected to a wireless access network via a modem. Said device comprises a client-side web scripting language library and a platform independent software library enabled to be called from the client-side web scripting language library. The method comprises the steps of instructing (108) the modem by the platform independent software library to obtain (HO) identification data related to the access network that the modem is currently connected to; inspecting (112) the file system of the modem to obtain configuration files containing data related to said access network and sending (116) data indicative of the location of the device to the client-side web scripting language based library for use by a web application to provide location based services to the device.