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Detecting mobile device usage within wireless networks

  • US 8,442,556 B2
  • Filed: 12/13/2010
  • Issued: 05/14/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/13/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:

  • sending, by one of the computing devices and to a mobile device, instructions to collect location-based data associated with calls conducted by the mobile device over a wireless access network;

    receiving, by one of the computing devices and from the mobile device, the location-based data, where the location-based data includes a three-dimensional location and a time associated with each of multiple calls conducted by the mobile device over the wireless access network;

    combining, by one of the computing devices, the location-based data with other location-based data from other mobile devices;

    identifying a particular congested time associated with a particular cell of the wireless access network;

    plotting location and elevation data, from the combined location-based data and other location-based data, for calls during the particular congested time to determine a localized area of congestion at a particular elevation within the particular cell; and

    adjusting, by one of the computing devices, one or more parameters of the wireless access network in order to minimize or eliminate the localized area of congestion.

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