Patent · US Expired

Method of detecting damaged cellular telephone facilities

US5970394A · kind A · utility

21Cited by
6References
9Claims
0Family size

Assignee

Inventors

Key dates

Filing dateOct 24, 1997
Grant dateOct 19, 1999
Priority date
Expiry dateOct 24, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B7/08
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method for detecting inequality in path balance in a cellular telephone system including the steps of providing data describing measured signal strength of signals received at a mobile unit and at a cell site in the absence of interference at a plurality of points describing the entire system; providing data describing measured signal strength of signals transmitted from each cell and from the mobile unit in the cellular telephone system; accumulating and averaging the data describing measured signal strength of signals received at the mobile unit and at the cell site to eliminate path loss variances between points and the cell site; selecting data describing measured signal strength of signals received at a mobile unit with path loss variances eliminated, data describing measured signal strength of signals transmitted from the mobile unit, data describing measured signal strength of signals received at a cell with path loss variances eliminated, data describing signal strength of signals transmitted from each cell for each point of the system; utilizing the selected data for each point to provide measures of the difference between the strength of signals on each path between eac…

Source: USPTO / EPO open patent data. Objective bibliographic and citation counts.