What Does Mobile Location Protocol (MLP) Mean?

Techopedia Explains Mobile Location Protocol (MLP)

Location-based applications utilize MLP to query mobile device data from wireless location servers such as the Gateway Mobile Location Center (GMLC). The Location Interoperability Forum (LIF), known as the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), developed MLP as an application programming interface (API). However, MLP is also applied to other wireless location terminal types.