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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 14, 2023

Filed:

Sep. 08, 2021
Applicant:

T-mobile Usa, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Inventor:

Nirmal Chandrasekaran, Bellevue, WA (US);

Assignee:

T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 64/00 (2009.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 36/16 (2009.01); H04W 52/28 (2009.01); H04W 36/32 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/00835 (2018.08); H04W 36/165 (2013.01); H04W 36/32 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 52/283 (2013.01); H04W 64/003 (2013.01);
Abstract

The described technology provides a system and method for determining, inter alia, if a serving cell in a cellular network is an over-shooter cell serving calls outside an intended or designed coverage area by searching for eligible neighbor cells in a search area bounded by an azimuth of a sector antenna of the serving cell. The serving cell is determined to be an over-shooter cell when, e.g., the distance between the serving cell and mobile devices associated with the calls is larger than the average distance between the serving cell and one or more closest neighbor cells in a list of eligible neighbor cells identified in the search area.


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