Patent ID: 7133664

Claim:
A method for searching for a location of a nearest fixed resource in a wireless network having one or more fixed resources, the method comprising: forming a request by a computing unit for: a location of a nearest fixed resource to the computing unit; and communication to a network server to: determine a location of the computing unit; search a hierarchical directory structure containing fixed resource objects for a match with the requested fixed resource, each fixed resource object being stored in the hierarchical directory structure according to a location of each fixed resource, wherein the fixed resource objects are stored in the hierarchical directory structure according to a relative location of the fixed resource within a base geographical region in which the fixed resource is located, the base geographical region being stored in the hierarchical directory structure according to an absolute location of the base geographical region, the base geographical region being located within one or more extended geographical regions which are stored in the hierarchical directory structure according to an absolute location of each extended geographical region; and determine which fixed resource object has a location that is nearest to the computing unit; and receiving data from the network server at the computing unit regarding the location of the nearest fixed resource.