US 11,683,717 B2
Method and apparatus for determining wireless MNO coverage and efficiently operating an enterprise wireless communication network
Srinivasan Balasubramanian, San Diego, CA (US); Mehmet Yavuz, Palo Alto, CA (US); and Preethi Natarajan, Saratoga, CA (US)
Assigned to Celona, Inc., Campbell, CA (US)
Filed by Celona, Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/214,655.
Application 17/214,655 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/126,839, filed on Dec. 18, 2020, granted, now 11,540,176.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/111,516, filed on Nov. 9, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0150752 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H04B 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 28/0289 (2013.01) [H04W 24/08 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of learning and utilizing a wireless footprint that defines wireless coverage of a plurality of external Mobile Network Operator Networks (MNs) at a campus location on which an Enterprise Network (EN) has deployed a Radio Access Network (RAN) that includes a plurality of Base Stations/Access Points (BS/APs) to provide wireless coverage to a plurality of mobile User Equipment Devices (UEs), the plurality of mobile UEs measuring signals from the plurality of BS/APs as the mobile UEs travel through the campus location, the mobile UEs also measuring one or more signals from the plurality of MNs, comprising:
monitoring a plurality of said mobile UEs wirelessly connected to the EN while said mobile UEs travel through the campus location;
from each of said UEs connected to the RAN, collecting signal quality data of the BS/APs measured by the UE;
utilizing said signal quality data to define a RAN location;
from each of said UEs that is measuring signals from an MN, collecting signal quality data for the MNs that said UE is measuring, and associating said MN signal quality data with the RAN location provided by said UE;
collecting said RAN and MN signal quality data from said plurality of UEs and processing the signal quality data to map the MNO Network wireless coverage as a function of RAN location and thereby define a footprint of each external network (MN) as a function of RAN location; and
transferring a UE between the EN and the MN responsive to the UE's RAN location and the footprint of at least one of the MNO Networks with which the UE has a subscription.