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US 8,818,354 B1Granted
Systems and methods for mobile station validation
AssigneeCellco Partnership
InventorCarlton L. Bennett
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Abstract
Systems, methods, and an article of manufacture for performing a validation test of a model of a mobile station for operability of the mobile station to communicate via a wireless communication network are shown and described. After receiving one or more call parameters at a mobile station, the mobile station automatically executes a test call an indicated number of times according the received call parameters. One or more test parameters are recorded during the testing. The recorded results can be displayed on the mobile station, for example, at the end of the test procedure.
Claims26
A method comprising steps of:
- receiving, at a mobile station, a value for each of a plurality of call control parameters for performing a validation test of a model of the mobile station, the value for each of the call control parameters being input from an operator of the mobile station, the call control parameters including at least a duration for connecting the mobile device to a destination device during a test call, a telephone number associated with the destination device, and an indication of a number of times to perform the test call to the destination device, the received telephone number associated with the destination device including a destination telephone number associated with a location based service, the location based service including an emergency service;
- automatically executing, by the mobile station via a wireless communication network, the test call the indicated number of times each for the indicated duration according to the received values for the plurality of call control parameters;
- transmitting, to an element of the wireless communication network, location data associated with the mobile station during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call, to identify a location of the mobile station during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call;
- recording, by the mobile station, the identified location and one or more test parameters during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call;
- reporting, by the mobile station, the identified location and the one or more recorded test parameters;
- and
- validating the operability of the mobile station with the wireless communication network based on the reported one or more test parameters and the identified location of the mobile station,
- wherein:
- validating the operability of the mobile station includes certifying that the model of the mobile station is ready for use in the wireless communication network, and
- certifying that the model of the mobile station includes determining an accuracy of the identified location during each executed test call associated with the location based service.
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A mobile communications system, comprising:
- a traffic network configured to support communications;
- and
- a mobile station in communication with the traffic network, the mobile station configured to:
- receive a value for each of a plurality of call control parameters for performing a validation test of a model of the mobile station, the value for each of the call control parameters being input from an operator of the mobile station, the call control parameters including at least a duration for connecting the mobile device to a destination device during a test call, a telephone number associated with the destination device, and an indication of a number of times to perform the test call to the destination device, the received telephone number associated with the destination device including a destination telephone number associated with a location based service, the location based service including an emergency service;
- automatically execute the test call, via the traffic network, the indicated number of times each for the indicated duration according to the received values for the plurality of call control parameters;
- transmit location data associated with the mobile station to an element of the traffic network during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call, to identify a location of the mobile station during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call;
- record the identified location and one or more test parameters during the execution of the indicated number of the test calls;
- report the identified location and the one or more recorded test parameters;
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- validate the operability of the mobile station with the traffic network based on the reported one or more test parameters and the identified location of the mobile station to certify that the model of the mobile station is ready for use in the traffic network,
- wherein certifying the model of the mobile station includes determining an accuracy of the identified location during each executed test call associated with the location based service.
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An article of manufacture comprising:
- a non-transitory machine readable storage medium;
- and executable program instructions embodied in the non-transitory machine readable storage medium that when executed by a programmable system of a mobile station causes the system to perform functions that provide validation testing of the mobile station for operability of model of a mobile station to communicate via a wireless communication network, the functions comprising:
- receiving, at the mobile station, a value for each of a plurality of call control parameters for performing a validation test of a model of the mobile station, the value for each of the call control parameters being input from an operator of the mobile station, the call control parameters including at least a duration for connecting the mobile device to a destination device during a test call, a telephone number associated with the destination device, and an indication of a number of times to perform the test call to the destination device, the received telephone number associated with the destination device including a destination telephone number associated with a location based service, the location based service including an emergency service;
- automatically executing, by the mobile station, the test call the indicated number of times each for the indicated duration according to the received values for the plurality of call control parameters;
- transmitting location data associated with the mobile station to an element of the wireless communication network during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call, to identify a location of the mobile station during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call;
- recording, by the mobile station, the identified location and one or more test parameters during the execution of the indicated number of times of execution of the test call;
- reporting, by the mobile station, the identified location and the one or more recorded test parameters;
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- validating the operability of the mobile station with the wireless communication network based on the reported one or more test parameters and the identified location of the mobile station to certify that the model of the mobile station is ready for use in the wireless communication network, wherein certifying the model of the mobile station includes determining an accuracy of the identified location during each executed test call associated with the location based service.
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A method of performing a validation test of a model of a mobile station for operability of the mobile station to communicate via a wireless communication network, the method comprising steps of:
- receiving, at the mobile station, a value for each of a plurality of call control parameters for performing a validation test of a model of the mobile station, the value for each of the call control parameters being input from an operator of the mobile station, the call control parameters including at least a duration for connecting the mobile device to a destination device during a test call, a telephone number associated with the destination device, and an indication of a number of times to perform the test call to the destination device, the received telephone number associated with the destination device including a destination telephone number associated with a location based service, the location based service including an emergency service;
- automatically executing, by the mobile station via the wireless communication device, the test call the indicated number of times each for the indicated duration according to the received values for the plurality of call control parameters;
- recording, by the mobile station, one or more test parameters during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call;
- determining a location of the mobile station, by an element of the wireless communication network, during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call;
- recording, by the network element, the determined location of the mobile station during the indicated number of times of execution of the test call;
- reporting the determined location and the recorded test parameters;
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- validating the operability of the mobile station with the wireless communication network based on the reported one or more test parameters and the reported determined location of the mobile station,
- wherein validating the operability of the mobile station includes certifying that the model of the mobile station is ready for use in the wireless communication network, and certifying the model of the mobile station including determining an accuracy of the reported location during each executed test call associated with the location based service.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.