Remote location based services

1. A method for processing at a remote device a request from a first device, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a request message sent from a first device to a second, remote device to obtain information on location based services available at the physical location of the remote device;

determining a user defined query in the request message;

routing the query to an appropriate response service;

formulating the response from the response service into a response message; and

routing the response message to the first device;

wherein:

the first and second devices are part of a wireless cellular communication system including a plurality of geographically defined cells;

the first and second devices are in different ones of said plurality of cells;

the receiving step includes the steps of

a user accessing a web site of the response service, formulating the request message, and sending the request message from the first device to the second device; and

said request message includes

i) an identification of the remote device,

ii) a subject identifying the type of information requested, and

iii) an action tag indicating the type of lookup query to be performed in order to obtain the requested information.