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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2010
Sarat Puthenpura, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
David G. Belanger, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Gopalakrishnan Meempat, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Sam Houston Parker, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Ravi Raina, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
Sarat Puthenpura, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
David G. Belanger, Hillsborough, NJ (US);
Gopalakrishnan Meempat, East Brunswick, NJ (US);
Sam Houston Parker, Cranbury, NJ (US);
Ravi Raina, North Brunswick, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for forecasting busy hour traffic for a network are disclosed. For example, the method obtains actual traffic data for a seed time frame for each of one or more sectors in a given market and marketing projections for one or more forecast time frames for the given market, and determines a market traffic actual measure for the given market from the actual traffic data. The method obtains market traffic estimates from one or more previous runs, and updates the one or more market traffic estimates for the one or more forecast time frames beyond the seed time frame to obtain one or more updated market traffic estimates, wherein the updated market traffic estimates are used for forecasting the busy hour traffic data for each of the one or more forecast time frames beyond the seed time frame.