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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 15, 2006
Applicant:
Thuy Thomas Tran, Fairfax, VA (US);
Inventor:
Thuy Thomas Tran, Fairfax, VA (US);
Assignee:
Nextel Communications, Inc., Reston, VA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Methods for decommissioning wireless transmission sites include calculating coverage radii for wireless transmission stations, and representing the wireless transmission stations as a two-dimensional grid. In one embodiment, the virtual cells that comprise the grid having a virtual cell size that is based on the coverage radii. Virtual grid cells having excess wireless transmission stations are identified. Particular excess wireless transmissions stations are then selected for decommissioning based on a predetermined factor.