Patent ID: 8843160
Filing Date: 2014-09-23
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A radio access network (RAN) based data processing system configured for location based wireless tower caching, the system comprising: a plurality of different base stations each coupled to a respective wireless tower and each of the plurality of different base stations comprising an antenna held by the respective wireless tower, a receiver, a transmitter, a processor, a local cache, and a network interface to a data communications network; a radio network controller (RNC) coupled to each of the plurality of different base stations over the data communications network; a caching module disposed in each of the plurality of base stations and coupled to the local cache; and, a location based wireless tower caching module executing in the RNC, the location based wireless tower caching module comprising program code enabled to receive a response to a data request from one of the plurality of different base stations on behalf of an end user device, the response comprises at least one of a map generated from an address supplied by the end user device or a point of interest of a map generated from an address supplied by the end user device, to determine geographic positioning data for the response, to compare the determined geographic positioning data for the response to a list of locations of wireless towers in the RAN to identify a most geographically relevant wireless tower coupled to the RAN relative to the determined geographic positioning data, the most geographically relevant wireless tower being geographically closest to the received response to the data request, and to direct caching of the response at the local cache in a particular one of the plurality of different base stations of the identified most geographically relevant wireless tower.