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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2009
Amer Catovic, San Diego, CA (US);
Jay F. Dills, San Diego, CA (US);
Mukesh K. Mittal, San Diego, CA (US);
Amer Catovic, San Diego, CA (US);
Jay F. Dills, San Diego, CA (US);
Mukesh K. Mittal, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for generating performance measurements for a wireless network is provided. The method may comprise: obtaining, at a base station, performance measurements and location data from a mobile device, storing, at the base station and based on the location data, at least a portion of the obtained measurements to at least one virtual geographic bin of a storage array, wherein each virtual geographic bin corresponds to a different geographic area within a cell serviced by the base station, aggregating, at the base station, at least a portion the measurements stored in each virtual geographic bin into one or more location-based performance measurements, and transmitting, from the base station, at least a portion of the location-based performance measurements to a network manager.