1. A method of providing a User Plane location based service to a roaming wireless device, comprising:
establishing a roaming interface between a home LCS manager of a home wireless carrier network and a visited LCS manager of a currently visited wireless carrier network;
directing IP connectivity over the Internet capable of being transmitted through a firewall in said home wireless carrier network and through a firewall in said visited wireless carrier network; and
providing a message tunneling mechanism to provide an uninterrupted communication path between a location service system and a wireless device being located.
2-10. (canceled)
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1-35. (canceled)
36. A remote control apparatus for controlling a broadcast program receiver appliance, comprising:
a portable device including (i) a receiver for receipt of wireless incoming data transmissions from a host device via a communications network, the data transmission between the portable device and the host device via the communications network being independent from the transmission of the broadcast program and including first program cue data corresponding to a given broadcast program, (ii) software for recording second program cue data corresponding to a broadcast program accessed at the broadcast program receiver, (iii) a transmitter for sending wireless outgoing data transmissions to the host device via the communications network, and (iv) a display for visual presentation of at least a portion of the incoming data received by the portable device from the host device via the communications network, said portion of incoming data being displayed on the portable device in response to the matching of the first and second program cue data, such that the visual presentation on the display of the portable device has content related to the content of the broadcast program accessed at the broadcast program receiver.
37. The remote control apparatus of claim 36 wherein the second program cue data corresponds to a broadcast program currently accessed at the broadcast program receiver and the visual presentation on the display of the hand held device has content related to the content of the currently accessed broadcast program.
38. The remote control apparatus of claim 36 wherein the first and second program cue data includes channel identification data.