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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 13, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 10, 2021
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
At&t Technical Services Company, Inc., Vienna, VA (US);
Daniel Vivanco, Ashburn, VA (US);
Slawomir Mikolaj Stawiarski, Carpentersville, IL (US);
David Ross Beppler, Duluth, GA (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
AT&T Technical Services Company, Inc., Vienna, VA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, collecting network data for a plurality of cells of a cellular communication network, identifying a particular cell of the plurality of cells is in an un-responsive state, wherein the identifying is based on the network data, selecting a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices as UE test devices, forcing cell reselection attempts, handover attempts, or both, by the UE test devices to communicate with the particular cell, confirming the particular cell is in the un-responsive state based on failure of the cell reselection attempts or failure of the handover attempts, and communicating a restart signal from the processing system to cause the particular cell to restart to a responsive state. Other embodiments are disclosed.