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Apparatus method and systems relating to a wireless geographical positioning system including a system for monitoring and analyzing characteristics of a wireless telecommunications network

US6463287B1 · kind B1 · utility

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Key dates

Filing dateDec 30, 1998
Grant dateOct 8, 2002
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Expiry dateDec 30, 2018

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04W64/00
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Apparatus, methods and systems related to, or employing, an event detector that causes a wireless telecommunications network to trigger a request to a wireless positioning system upon detecting a predefined event associated with a Mobile System (MS); the wireless positioning system is operable to determine and communicate the geographic location of the MS to the wireless telecommunications network in response to receiving the request. A system for monitoring and analyzing characteristics of a wireless telecommunications network can advantageously employ the event detector to log data associated with each occurrence of a predefined event. The data can be displayed on a video terminal, for example, as a graphical representation of the data; the graphical representation can be an overlay of the data on a topographical representation of at least a portion of the wireless telecommunications network, whereby the characteristics can be used to troubleshoot and/or improve the operation of the wireless telecommunications network.

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