Patent ID: 7995538

Claim:
A method, comprising: comparing at a mobile station a current time to a last request time at which access by the mobile station to a shared resource through a communication network was previously desired, the shared resource comprising position aiding data, said communication network facilitating communication between said shared resource and said mobile station; in response to the comparison indicating a first relationship, initiating transmission of an access request through said communication network for the position aiding data from the mobile station directed toward the shared resource and computing at the mobile station a position of the mobile station based, at least in part, on at least a portion of the position aiding data obtained at the mobile station responsive to the access request; and in response to the comparison indicating a second relationship, throttling from the mobile station directed toward the shared resource an access request for the position aiding data and computing at the mobile station a position of the mobile station without the position aiding data.