System and method for automated placement or configuration of equipment for obtaining desired network performance objectives
First Claim
37-1. The system of claim 1 wherein said means for changing manually changes in an iterative process one of transmit power, channel or frequency, bandwidth, data rate, antenna type, antenna sector or positioning, modulation or coding type, protocol, data rate, switching in a spare component, resetting, or changing settings of a component of said one or more components.
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Abstract
A method is presented for determining optimal or preferred configuration settings for wireless or wired network equipment in order to obtain a desirable level of network performance. A site-specific network model is used with adaptive processing to perform efficient design and on-going management of network performance. The invention iteratively determines overall network performance and cost, and further iterates equipment settings, locations and orientations. Real time control is between a site-specific Computer Aided Design (CAD) software application and the physical components of the network allows the invention to display, store, and iteratively adapt any network to constantly varying traffic and interference conditions. Alarms provide rapid adaptation of network parameters, and alerts and preprogrammed network shutdown actions may be taken autonomously. A wireless post-it note device and network allows massive data such as book contents or hard drive memory to be accessed within a room by a wide bandwidth reader device, and this can further be interconnected to the internet or Ethernet backbone in order to provide worldwide access and remote retrieval to wireless post-it devices.
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189 Claims
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37-1. The system of claim 1 wherein said means for changing manually changes in an iterative process one of transmit power, channel or frequency, bandwidth, data rate, antenna type, antenna sector or positioning, modulation or coding type, protocol, data rate, switching in a spare component, resetting, or changing settings of a component of said one or more components.
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47. A method for modeling a communications network, comprising:
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displaying a site map of a site in which a communications network is or will be deployed;
configuring a computer representation on said site map on said display a possible configuration of a communications network which includes a plurality of components which are or may be used in the communications network, one or more of said plurality of components having at least one of performance data, cost data, maintenance data, and equipment settings stored in a database;
establishing one or more parameters of a desirable configuration of said communications network;
changing at least one of a) one or more components within said configuration of said communications network, and b) equipment settings of one or more components within said configuration of said communications network;
determining predicted or measured parameters for said communications network within said site generated by said configuring step and said changing step; and
determining one or more optimized or preferred configurations of said communications network based on a comparison of predicted or measured parameters generated by said determining step and said one or more parameters of said desirable configuration established by said establishing step. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88, 89, 90, 91, 92, 93, 188)
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94. A system for modeling a communications network, comprising:
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a display for displaying a site map of a site in which a communications network is or will be deployed;
means for identifying locations on said site map where placement of one or more components of said communications network are not desirable or are desirable;
means for establishing one or more parameters of a desirable configuration of said communications network;
means for configuring a computer representation on said site map on said display a possible configuration of a communications network which includes a plurality of said one or more components which are or may be used in the communications network, one or more of said components having at least one of performance data, cost data, maintenance data, and equipment settings stored in a database, said means for configuring positioning on said site map computer representations of said one or more components only at locations which are desirable and not at locations which are not desirable; and
means for determining one or more optimized or preferred configurations of said communications network based on a comparison of predicted or measured parameters for a configuration generated by said means for configuring with said one or more parameters of said desirable configuration established by said means for establishing. - View Dependent Claims (95, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 138)
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139. A method for modeling a communications network, comprising:
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displaying a site map of a site in which a communications network is or will be deployed;
identifying locations on said site map where placement of one or more components of said communications network are not desirable or are desirable;
establishing one or more parameters of a desirable configuration of said communications network;
configuring a computer representation on said site map on said display a possible configuration of a communications network which includes a plurality of said one or more components which are or may be used in the communications network, one or more of said components having at least one of performance data, cost data, maintenance data and equipment settings stored in a database, said means for configuring positioning on said site map computer representations of said one or more components only at locations which are desirable and not at locations which are not desirable; and
determining one or more optimized or preferred configurations of said communications network based on a comparison of predicted or measured parameters for a configuration generated by said means for configuring with said one or more parameters of said desirable configuration established in said establishing step. - View Dependent Claims (140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153, 154, 155, 156, 157, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187)
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189. A network system, comprising
a plurality of wireless post it notes; - and
means for obtaining information from at least one of said wireless post it notes from said plurality of wireless post it notes.
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