Patent ID: 8301170

Claim:
A method of locating a radiocommunication device in a radiocommunication network comprising a plurality of distinct geographical cells, said radiocommunication device comprising a radiocommunication module making possible reception of radiocommunication carriers, each carrier being associated with a cell of said network and being defined by a frequency, a power level and an identifier of said cell, wherein the method comprises the following steps performed by the module: obtaining initialisation information comprising a predetermined list of N 1 reference carriers, with N 1 ≧1; selecting N carrier(s) from among the N 1 reference carriers, with 1≦N≦N 1 ; for each carrier selected, determining the cell identifier, referred to as a current cell identifier, associated with said carrier selected, using system information messages conveyed by said carrier; obtaining information regarding the location of said radiocommunication device, using the current cell identifier or identifiers.