US 11,910,201 B2 · Method and apparatus for qualifying customers and designing a fixed wireless network using mapping data

Abstract

A customer location is identified that can be served by a base-station in a fixed wireless communication system. Embodiments of the invention generate a viewshed for an antenna of the base-station, compute an area of a rooftop at the customer location that is included in the generated viewshed, and identify the customer location as able to be served, or not, by the base-station, based on the area of the rooftop at the customer location that is included in the generated viewshed. Further, a parcel of land on which to install a fixed wireless communication base-station can be identified. Each candidate base-station parcel of land in a list (“candidate base-station locations”) is evaluated and ranked. An evaluated candidate base-station location having a particular ranking is selected as the location on which to install the base-station.

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Dependent claims

A method for identifying a customer location that can be served by a base-station in a fixed wireless communication system, comprising:

generating a viewshed for an antenna of the base-station;
computing an area of a rooftop at the customer location that is included in the generated viewshed, comprising:
receiving rooftop area information for the at least one customer location;
identifying a polygon defined by an intersection of the viewshed and rooftop area for the customer location;
and
computing an area of the polygon;
and
identifying the customer location as able to be served by the base-station based on the computed area of the polygon.

5 more elements

Non-transitory computer readable storage media having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor of a system, the instructions cause the system to perform operations for identifying a customer location that can be served by a base-station in a fixed wireless communication system, comprising:

generating a viewshed for an antenna of the base-station;
computing an area of a rooftop at the customer location that is included in the generated viewshed, comprising:
receiving rooftop area information for the at least one customer location;
identifying a polygon defined by an intersection of the viewshed and rooftop area for the customer location;
and
computing an area of the polygon;
and
identifying the customer location as able to be served by the base-station based on the area of the polygon.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

17/258,735Filed 27 Jun 2019 · us provisional application

Priority

11 Jul 2018

Published

US 2021/0289366 A116 Sep 2021

Granted

20 Feb 2024

Term ends

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Classification4 codes

H04W 16/18
Network planning, e.g. coverage or traffic planning tools; Network deployment, e.g. resource partitioning or cells structures: network planning tools
H04W 24/02
Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements: arrangements for optimising operational condition
H04W 88/08
Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices: access point devices
H04W
Wireless communication networks

Method and apparatus for qualifying customers and designing a fixed wireless network using mapping data

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Method and apparatus for qualifying customers and designing a fixed wireless network using mapping data

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Abstract

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