| US 7,596,518 B2 | ||
| Method and system for generating a real time bill of materials and evaluating network performance | ||
| Theodore S Rappaport, Blacksburg, Va. (US); and Roger R. Skidmore, Blacksburg, Va. (US) | ||
| Assigned to Wireless Valley Communications, Inc., Austin, Tex. (US) | ||
| Filed on Oct. 09, 2002, as Appl. No. 10/266,711. | ||
| Application 10/266711 is a continuation of application No. 09/318842, filed on May 26, 1999, granted, now 6,493,679. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2003/0050878 A1, Mar. 13, 2003 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—29 [455/403; 455/422] | 20 Claims |
| 1. A method for designing, evaluating, or optimizing a communications system, comprising the steps of:
providing a computer with a computer database model of a site for deployment of a communications network;
selecting computer representations from the computer of one or more components for use in said communications network from
amongst a collection of computer representations of components, said computer representations of each of said one or more
components including performance and cost data;
positioning said one or more components on a site map of said site modeled with said computer database model at the computer;
the computer performing the steps of:
calculating one or more performance characteristics of said communications network modeled with said computer database model;
generating cost information based on cost data of said one or more components selected in said selecting step; and
presenting said one or more of performance characteristics and cost information to a user of the computer for designing, evaluating,
or optimizing the communications network.
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