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- Patent Title: Methods and systems for determining a wireless service outage
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Application No.: US17532489Application Date: 2021-11-22
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Publication No.: US12114183B2Publication Date: 2024-10-08
- Inventor: Robert Frangooles , Christopher Chorney
- Applicant: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Bellevue
- Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Bellevue
- Agency: Lee & Hayes, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04W24/04
- IPC: H04W24/04

Abstract:
Methods and systems for determining an outage of the wireless communication services in an area are discussed herein. The area may indicate a geographic area defined by at least one of a city boundary, a census tract, a county boundary, or a state boundary. A method includes monitoring signals from a plurality of nodes that provide services to an area; determining, based at least in part on the signals, that at least one of the plurality of nodes is out of service; determining, based at least in part on census data of the area, a coverage level of the area, the coverage level indicating the coverage of services provided by the plurality of nodes in service; determining that the coverage level is less than a coverage threshold; and transmitting an outage notification to an emergency service provider.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230164593A1 METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR DETERMINING A WIRELESS SERVICE OUTAGE Public/Granted day:2023-05-25
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