Network fault system
First Claim
1. A network fault system for a mobile telecommunications network including:
- a first interface for accessing first fault data representative of faults reported by users of mobile stations of said network;
a second interface for accessing second fault data representative of faults in said network determined by a network analysis system; and
pattern matching means for allocating said first and second fault data to fault patterns representative of faults having at least one common characteristic.
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Abstract
The fault system includes an interface for accessing first data fault representative of faults in the reported by users of mobile stations of the network, an interface for accessing second fault, data representative of faults in the network determined by a network analysis system, and pattern matching device for allocating the first and second fault data to fault patterns, representative of faults having at least one common characteristic. The common characteristics is geographic location and fault type. The fault system further includes pattern generation device for generating the fault pattern using respective fault templates to allocate the fault data to the fault patterns.
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Citations
32 Claims
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1. A network fault system for a mobile telecommunications network including:
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a first interface for accessing first fault data representative of faults reported by users of mobile stations of said network;
a second interface for accessing second fault data representative of faults in said network determined by a network analysis system; and
pattern matching means for allocating said first and second fault data to fault patterns representative of faults having at least one common characteristic. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
locations and location confidence values representing the probability of the fault of said fault data having occurred at at least one of the locations and another confidence value representing the probability of the fault not having occurred in said locations; and
said geographic data includes locations and location confidence values representing the probability of the faults of said pattern having occurred at at least one of said locations and another confidence value representing the probability of the faults not having occurred in said locations, said confidence values of said pattern being normalised.
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15. A network fault system as claimed in claim 14, wherein said location data corresponds to said fault data when at least one of the locations of said location data is the same as one of the locations of said geographic data.
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16. A network fault system as claimed in claim 15, wherein on allocating said fault data to said pattern, said confidence values of said pattern are the product of said location confidence values of said fault and said another confidence value of said pattern, the product of said location confidence values of said pattern and said another confidence value of said fault data and, for location confidence values of said fault data and said pattern having the same respective locations, the product of these location confidence values.
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17. A fault pattern matching process including:
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accessing first fault data representative of faults reported by users of mobile stations of a mobile telecommunications network;
accessing second fault data representative of faults in said network determined by a network analysis system; and
matching said first and second fault data to fault patterns representative of faults having at least one common characteristic. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
locations and location confidence values representing the probability of the fault of said fault data having occurred at at least one of the locations and another confidence value representing the probability of the fault not having occurred in said locations; and
said geographic data includes locations and location confidence values representing the probability of the faults of said pattern having occurred at at least one of said locations and another confidence value representing the probability of the faults not having occurred in said locations, said confidence values of said pattern being normalised.
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31. A fault pattern matching process as claimed in claim 30, wherein said location data corresponds to said fault data when at least one of the locations of said location data is the same as one of the locations of said geographic data.
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32. A fault pattern matching process as claimed in claim 31, wherein said matching of said fault data to said pattern includes setting said confidence values of said pattern to the product of said location confidence values of said fault and said another confidence value of said pattern, the product of said location confidence values of said pattern and said another confidence value of said fault data and, for location confidence values of said fault data and said pattern having the same respective locations, the product of these location confidence values.
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