System and method for providing location information for a mobile handset
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1. A system that facilitates determination of a location of a mobile handset, comprising:
- a location measurement unit, within a cell site comprising a single base station, configured to collect location related information corresponding to the mobile handset; and
a base station controller further comprising;
a computation component configured to approximate a location of the mobile handset, wherein the computation component is configured to receive the location related information from the location measurement unit and additional location related information from at least two other location measurement units within the cell site, and the computation component approximates the location via a triangulation operation that utilizes the location related information, wherein the triangulation operation is initiated by the computation component in response to detection of the location related information being received from the mobile handset at the location measurement unit and the at least two other location measurement units and wherein each location measurement unit corresponds to a sector of the cell site and the location measurement unit resides at least 0.5 miles from the at least two other location measurement units within the cell site.
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Abstract
A system that facilitates determination of a location of a mobile handset. The system includes three or more location measurement units that each correspond to a sector of the cell site. The location measurement units transmit location related information to a computation component. The computation component receives the location related information and performs a triangulation calculation on the information o define the location of the mobile handset.
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1. A system that facilitates determination of a location of a mobile handset, comprising:
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a location measurement unit, within a cell site comprising a single base station, configured to collect location related information corresponding to the mobile handset; and a base station controller further comprising; a computation component configured to approximate a location of the mobile handset, wherein the computation component is configured to receive the location related information from the location measurement unit and additional location related information from at least two other location measurement units within the cell site, and the computation component approximates the location via a triangulation operation that utilizes the location related information, wherein the triangulation operation is initiated by the computation component in response to detection of the location related information being received from the mobile handset at the location measurement unit and the at least two other location measurement units and wherein each location measurement unit corresponds to a sector of the cell site and the location measurement unit resides at least 0.5 miles from the at least two other location measurement units within the cell site. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer executable instructions that, in response to execution by a computing system, cause the computing system to perform operations, comprising:
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obtaining a signal from a mobile handset at a location measurement unit associated with a cell site comprising a single base station; producing location related information based at least in part on the signal; receiving the location related information from the location measurement unit and additional location related information from at least two additional location measurement units associated with the cell site; employing the location related information from the location measurement unit and the additional location related information from the at least two additional location measurement units associated with the cell site to determine a location of the mobile handset, wherein the location of the mobile handset is determined via a triangulation operation and wherein each location measurement unit corresponds to a sector of the cell site and the location measurement unit resides at least 0.5 miles from the at least two additional location measurement units associated with the cell site; and initiating the triangulation operation based on the location related information being received at the location measurement unit and the at least two additional location measurement units. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18)
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19. A method comprising:
receiving, at a base station controller, location related information from at least three location measurement units being located within a cell site comprising a single base station and associated with the base stations controller, the location related information pertaining to a location of a mobile handset located within the cell site and being based upon a measured arrival of a signal from the mobile handset at each of the at least three location measurement units and wherein each location measurement unit corresponds to a sector of the cell site and the at least three location measurement units with a distance of at least 0.5 miles separating one location measurement unit from an adjacent location measurement unit comprising the at least three location measurement units; and calculating, at the base stations controller, the location of the mobile handset located within the cell site;
wherein the calculating is initiated in response to detecting arrival of a signal from the mobile handset at each of the at least three location measurement units and comprises triangulating the location related information being received from the at least three location measurement units.- View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27)
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