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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 10, 2007
Robert Morris Dressler, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
James Vincent Steele, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert Lewis Martin, Antioch, CA (US);
Manlio Allegra, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Mark Douglas Reudink, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robert Morris Dressler, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
James Vincent Steele, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Robert Lewis Martin, Antioch, CA (US);
Manlio Allegra, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
Mark Douglas Reudink, Los Altos, CA (US);
Polaris Wireless, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A technique for designing and testing drive-test plan for gathering location-dependent RF data is disclosed. In accordance with some embodiments of the present invention, one candidate drive-test plan is chosen for implementation over a second based on an economic cost-benefit analysis of both plans. This is in marked contrast to, for example, a selection of drive-test plans, or the design of a drive-test plan, based on a calibration-cost analysis, in which the data estimated to be the most effective to calibrate a radio-frequency tool is sought for a given cost or the least cost. Although a data-estimated-to-be-most-effective-to-calibrate-a-radio-frequency-tool vs. cost analysis is a species of cost-benefit analyses in general, it is not an economic cost-benefit analysis because a data-estimated-to-be-most-effective-to-calibrate-a-radio-frequency-tool vs. cost analysis has deficiencies that an economic cost-benefit analysis does not.