Gaming through mobile or other devices

Abstract

Various embodiments that may generally relate to mobile gaming, location determination, mobile devices, authentication, and so on are described. Various methods are described. Various apparatus are described. Further embodiments are described.

1 . A method comprising:
 determining, by a computing device, that a first cellular telephone is accessing a gaming service through a first network that is known to the gaming service as being in an approved location;   in response to determining that the first cellular telephone is accessing the gaming service through the first network, allowing, by the computing device, the first cellular telephone to access gaming services of the gaming service;   determining, by the computing device, that a second cellular telephone is accessing a gaming service through a second network that is not known to the gaming service as being in the approved location;   in response to determining that the second cellular telephone is accessing the gaming service through the second network, determining, by the computing device, that a first confidence level that the second cellular telephone is in the approved location based on a first internet protocol address of the second cellular telephone is above a threshold confidence;   in response to determining that the first confidence level is above the threshold confidence, allowing, by the computing device, the second cellular telephone to access gaming services of the gaming service;   determining, by the computing device, that a third cellular telephone is accessing a gaming service through the second network that is not known to the gaming service as being in the approved location;   in response to determining that the third cellular telephone is accessing the gaming service through the second network, determining, by the computing device, that a second confidence level that the third cellular telephone is in the approved location based on a second internet protocol address of the third cellular telephone is below the threshold confidence;   in response to determining that the second confidence level is below the threshold confidence, querying, by the computing device, a secondary location determination service for a location of the third cellular telephone;   receiving, by the computing device, an indication of the location of the third cellular telephone from a secondary location determination service; and   allowing, by the computing device, the third cellular telephone to access gaming services of the gaming service based on the location of the third cellular telephone being gin the approved location.