Providing wireless transmitter almanac information to mobile station based on expected contribution to future navigation operation

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including program code stored thereon, comprising:

• program code to determine an expected contribution to a future navigation operation of a mobile station for individual wireless transmitters of a plurality of wireless transmitters, based, at least in part, on a value of the expected contribution and a likelihood of having one or more signals acquired by the mobile station for the individual wireless transmitters of the plurality of wireless transmitters;
• program code to determine a subset of wireless transmitters from the plurality of wireless transmitters based at least in part on the expected contribution for the individual wireless transmitters;
• and
• program code to identify almanac information for the subset of wireless transmitters.

A computing platform, comprising:

• a processor to:
• determine an expected contribution to a future navigation operation of a mobile station for individual wireless transmitters of a plurality of wireless transmitters, based, at least in part, on a value of the expected contribution and a likelihood of having one or more signals acquired by the mobile station for the individual wireless transmitters of the plurality of wireless transmitters;
• determine a subset of wireless transmitters from the plurality of wireless transmitters based at least in part on the determined expected contributions for the individual wireless transmitters;
• and
• identify almanac information for the determined subset of wireless transmitters.

An apparatus, comprising:

• means for determining an expected contribution to a future navigation operation of a mobile station for individual wireless transmitters of a plurality of wireless transmitters, based, at least in part, on a value of the expected contribution and a likelihood of having one or more signals acquired by the mobile station for the individual wireless transmitters of the plurality of wireless transmitters;
• means for determining a subset of wireless transmitters from the plurality of wireless transmitters based at least in part on the expected contribution for the individual wireless transmitters;
• and
• means for identifying almanac information for the subset of wireless transmitters.

A method, comprising:

• determining at a mobile station an expected contribution to a future navigation operation of the mobile station for individual wireless transmitters of a plurality of wireless transmitters, based, at least in part, on a value of the expected contribution and a likelihood of having one or more signals acquired by the mobile station for the individual wireless transmitters of the plurality of wireless transmitters;
• transmitting information indicative of the expected contribution of the mobile station from the mobile station to an almanac server;
• and
• receiving one or more signals indicative of almanac information at the mobile station from the almanac server, the almanac information associated with a subset of wireless transmitters determined from the plurality of wireless transmitters based at least in part on the expected contribution for the individual wireless transmitters.