Patent ID: 8812019

Claim:
A method, comprising: determining an expected route of a mobile device based, at least in part, on information generated by a navigation application hosted by the mobile device; transmitting one or more messages from a communication interface of the mobile device to a network entity comprising a request for identity or position information for a subset of wireless transmitters to be determined based at least in part on the expected route of the mobile device, wherein the request for identity or position information includes information indicative of the expected route of the mobile device; receiving at the communication interface of the mobile device one or more messages from the network entity comprising identity or position information for the subset of wireless transmitters determined by the network entity based at least in part on the expected route of the mobile device; and removing power from a satellite positioning system function within the mobile device at least in part in response to receiving one or more messages from the network entity comprising identity or position information for a subset of wireless transmitters sufficient to allow for navigation operations to be performed using wireless transmitters located along the expected route.