FIELD: information technology.
SUBSTANCE: mobile stations may have a limited capacity for storing information, due at least in part to size and cost considerations. Typically, much information included in a base station almanac is repetitive due to similar parameters stored for most or all sectors for most or all transmitters across a wireless communications system, such as a cellular system. The information related to the various transmitters may be stored as a flat listing, where specified information for individual transmitters is stored in separate entries for all of the individual sectors for all of the individual transmitters. Therefore, because of the repetitive nature of the transmitter information, and because of a mobile station's limited capacity for storing such information, it may be advantageous to more efficiently store transmitter information in a base station almanac by reducing unnecessary duplication of information.
EFFECT: high accuracy of determining location.
68 cl, 7 dwg
