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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 23, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 22, 2013
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
At&t Mobility Ii Llc, Atlanta, GA (US);
Zihui Ge, Madison, NJ (US);
Mario Kosseifi, Roswell, GA (US);
Matthew Osinski, Cranford, NJ (US);
He Yan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US);
Jennifer Yates, Morristown, NJ (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method, computer-readable storage device and apparatus for quantifying a total number of customers impacted by a cellular tower outage are disclosed. For example, the method monitors a plurality of cellular towers, detects a failure of one of the plurality of cellular towers, identifies a subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in an affected region, calculates a number of additional customers served by each one of the subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in the affected region due to the failure of the one cellular tower, and quantifies the total number of customers impacted by the failure of the one cellular tower by adding the number of additional customers served by the each one of the subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in the affected region.