Patent ID: 8055270

Claim:
A system that facilitates determination of a location of a mobile handset, comprising: a location measurement unit, within a cell site comprising a single base station, configured to collect location related information corresponding to the mobile handset; and a base station controller further comprising: a computation component configured to approximate a location of the mobile handset, wherein the computation component is configured to receive the location related information from the location measurement unit and additional location related information from at least two other location measurement units within the cell site, and the computation component approximates the location via a triangulation operation that utilizes the location related information, wherein the triangulation operation is initiated by the computation component in response to detection of the location related information being received from the mobile handset at the location measurement unit and the at least two other location measurement units and wherein each location measurement unit corresponds to a sector of the cell site and the location measurement unit resides at least 0.5 miles from the at least two other location measurement units within the cell site.