A method and apparatus is disclosed for providing a range of location dependent
information and services to users of wireless devices coupled to the multi-point
wireless access network of the current invention.
In an embodiment of the invention a multi-point wireless access network for servicing
wireless devices is provided. The multi-point wireless access network includes:
wireless access devices, an inventory map and a server. The wireless access points
are arrayed in a coordinate system with a known relative relationship to one another.
Each of the wireless access points provides communication capabilities for corresponding
proximate ones of the wireless devices. The inventory map correlates selected ones
of the wireless access points with corresponding inventory located proximate to
each of the selected ones of the wireless access points. The server couples to
the wireless access points and to the inventory map, and the server correlates
each access to the multi-point wireless access network from a corresponding wireless
device with the corresponding inventory from the inventory map to provide at least
one of location dependant information and location dependant services to the corresponding
wireless device.
