Fault monitoring in a utility supply network
AssigneeSpatialbuzz Limited
InventorsAndrew Blake, Michael Shannon, Christopher John Haslett
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Abstract
A first aspect of the invention provides a method of fault monitoring in a utility supply network, the method comprising: receiving user queries, each user query about a performance of the network at a respective location; defining a region based on the locations specified in the received user queries; determining an estimate of a user population in the region; and according the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of fault investigation and remediation.
Claims23
A method of monitoring service disruptions in online services on a network, the method comprising:
- receiving user queries from users of the online services on the network, each user query about a performance of the online services at a respective location;
- the performance being with respect to the transmission or reception of data using the online services;
- defining a region based on the locations specified in the received user queries;
- determining an estimate of a user population in the region;
- and
- determining for the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of service disruption investigation and remediation.
A method of monitoring service disruptions in a data network, the method comprising:
- receiving queries from user devices of the data network, each user query being received from a user device about a performance of the data network on the user device at a respective location;
- the performance being with respect to the transmission or reception of data from or to the user device using the data network;
- defining a region based on the locations specified in the received queries;
- determining an estimate of the user population in the region;
- and
- determining for the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of service disruption investigation and remediation.
A method of monitoring service disruptions in a fixed-line data network, the method comprising:
- receiving user queries from users of the fixed-line data network, each user query about a performance of the fixed-line data network at a respective location;
- the performance being with respect to the transmission or reception of data using the fixed-line data network;
- defining a region based on the locations specified in the received user queries;
- determining an estimate of the user population in the region;
- and
- determining for the region, based on the estimate, a priority for one or more of service disruption investigation and remediation.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.