Patent ID: 8838148

Claim:
A method for wireless tower caching in a radio access network (RAN) comprising: receiving a response to a content request from an end user device wirelessly coupled to a base station of the RAN, the base station comprising an antenna supported by a separate wireless tower, the response comprises at least one of a map generated from an address supplied by the end user device or a point of interest of a map generated from an address supplied by the end user device; determining geographic positioning data for the response; comparing the determined geographic positioning data for the response to a list of locations of wireless towers in the RAN to identify a most geographically relevant wireless tower coupled to the RAN relative to the determined geographic positioning data, the most geographically relevant wireless tower being geographically closest to the received response to the content request; and, caching the response at a cache in the base station of the identified most geographically relevant wireless tower.