User Equipment with Wireless Coverage Tracking Capabilities

A method of operating user equipment to wirelessly communicate with external communications equipment as the user equipment moves through a geographic area, wherein the user equipment comprises control circuitry, an antenna, an output device, and measurement circuitry, the method comprising:

• with the antenna, receiving radio-frequency signals transmitted by the external communications equipment;
• with the measurement circuitry, generating wireless performance metric values from the radio-frequency signals received by the antenna as the user equipment moves through the geographic area;
• with the control circuitry, determining whether the wireless performance metric values exceed, for a time period, a threshold value;
• with the control circuitry, storing a respective geographic location of the user equipment at a location in the geographic area when the wireless performance metric values exceed, for the time period, the threshold value;
• and
• with the control circuitry, in response to a trigger condition, controlling the output device to produce an output that identifies a stored geographic location.

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured to be executed by at least one processor of user equipment having measurement circuitry, a wireless transmitter, and a wireless receiver, the one or more programs including instructions for:

• generating, with the measurement circuitry, wireless performance metric data from radio-frequency signals received by the wireless receiver;
• determining whether the generated wireless performance metric data exceeds, for a predetermined time period, a threshold value;
• and
• responsive to determining that the generated wireless performance metric data exceeds, for the predetermined time period, the threshold value, transmitting, using the wireless transmitter, a burst of reverse datagrams.