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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 25, 2014
Applicant:

Sprint Communication Company L.p., Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Timothy Hugh Pearson, Overland Park, KS (US);

Roger Danforth Bartlett, Merriam, KS (US);

Steven Kenneth Guthrie, Kansas City, MO (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 56/0035 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems are provided for detecting a synchronization failure of a base station in a wireless communications network. A server receives synchronization data, such as a phase offset between two base stations, from one or more base stations. A difference between each of the synchronization data and the corresponding control data is computed to determine if one or more of the differences is outside a predetermined threshold. If so, the base station that has the synchronization failure is identified.


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