Method and system for assisting wireless access points with satellite control plane
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsJoseph Soryal, Howard Lang
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Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining an image of a location that includes a wireless access point; analyzing the image to determine a potential signal interference from an object that has moved into a position with respect to the wireless access point; and generating routing instructions for wireless communications according to the potential signal interference. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Claims17
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor of a satellite, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- obtaining an image of a location that includes a wireless access point;
- analyzing the image to determine a potential signal interference from an object that has moved into a position with respect to the wireless access point;
- generating routing instructions for wireless communications according to the potential signal interference;
- and
- providing the routing instructions to a source wireless access point,
- wherein the source wireless access point rejects the routing instructions and transmits the wireless communications to the wireless access point.
A wireless access point, comprising:
- a processing system including a processor;
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- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
- receiving routing instructions that are generated according to analyzing of an image captured by a satellite to determine a potential signal interference for one or more recipient wireless access points,
- wherein the routing instructions are received from one of the satellite or a terrestrial network element executing a satellite operation application that has access to a topology profile comprising locations of a plurality of wireless access points that includes the wireless access point and the one or more recipient wireless access points, wherein the topology profile is periodically updated by equipment of a wireless core network;
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- transmitting wireless communications according to the routing instructions thereby avoiding the potential signal interference.
A method, comprising:
- capturing, by a processing system including a processor of a satellite, an image;
- obtaining, by the processing system, routing instructions that are generated according to analyzing of the image captured by the satellite to determine a potential signal interference for one or more recipient wireless access points;
- providing, by the processing system, the routing instructions to one of a source wireless access point or an end user device for transmitting wireless communications according to the routing instructions thereby avoiding the potential signal interference;
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- establishing, by the processing system, an application programming interface (API) with one or more of the source wireless access point and the one or more recipient wireless access points, wherein the API facilitates providing queries from the satellite.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.