Patent ID: 8849305

Claim:
A method of improving a location estimate of transceivers co-located at a sectored cell site, the method comprising: identifying a plurality of transceivers that are co-located at the sectored cell site comprising: accessing location information of a plurality of transceivers from a data store of a plurality of unique transceiver identifiers (IDs) and associated respective location estimates; grouping the plurality of transceiverlDs together into possible co-location groups based on the location estimates so that transceiverlDs associated with respective location estimates within a distance threshold of each other are grouped together; and for each possible co-located group: determining if the plurality of transceiverlDs of the plurality of transceivers in the possible co-located group are consistent with a co-location labelling format; and identifying each of the plurality of transceiverlDs with consistent transceiver IDs as co-located transceivers; determining a location of a virtual transceiver as an average of respective location estimates of the plurality of identified transceivers; and assigning the determined location of the virtual transceiver to each of the transceivers determined to be co-located.