Wireless network service assessment
AssigneeFurther LLC
InventorsMatthew Knebl, Andrei Covaliov, Artem Koltsov
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Abstract
Methods of creating an indoor confidence level comprising: receiving a location and location accuracy value from or for a device, wherein the location accuracy value is equated to a location accuracy circle; comparing the location and location accuracy circle to a map of known buildings and outdoor locations; and defining an indoor confidence level based upon the percent of overlap of the accuracy radius to a building on said map; and methods of defining an optimization priority among a set of collected data points for network connectivity.
Claims20
A method of creating an indoor confidence level comprising:
- receiving a location and location accuracy value from or for a device, wherein the location accuracy value is equated to a location accuracy circle;
- comparing the location and location accuracy circle to a map of known buildings and outdoor locations;
- and defining an indoor confidence level based upon the percent of overlap of the accuracy radius to a building on said map.
A method for identifying a optimization priority for a given measurement within a dataset of wireless measurements comprising:
- calculating a score for optimization priority of a signal measurement within a measurement set wherein one of four scenarios exist namely:
- wherein (1) the slope of RS SNR[AVERAGE] is lower than the slope of RS SNR[IDEAL] and lower than the actual RS SNR;
- (2) the slope of RS SNR[AVERAGE] is lower than the slope of RS SNR[IDEAL] and higher than the actual RS SNR;
- (3) the slope of RS SNR[AVERAGE] is higher than the slope of RS SNR[IDEAL] and lower than the actual RS SNR;
- (4) the slope of RS SNR[AVERAGE] is higher than the slope of RS SNR[IDEAL] and higher than the actual RS SNR.
A method of defining an optimization parameter for wireless network solutions comprising, defining a result, wherein the result is offered in the form of a calculated score ranging from 0% to 100% which represents the normalized deviation of a measurement's signal level and quality from a) a calculation of the area average signal level and quality and b) a calculation of the ideal signal level and quality achievable;
- wherein the calculated score also uses predefined signal quality value thresholds to place higher priority for optimization on areas with considerably degraded quality;
- and wherein areas with a high calculated score value and a high signal and poor quality, a performance modification selected from network changes such as antenna configuration or handoff settings adjustments, rather than the installation of a new cell site.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.