System, method, and computer program for increasing revenue associated with a portion of a network

• US 9,641,387 B1
• Filed: 01/23/2015
• Issued: 05/02/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Amdocs Development Limited (Amdocs Ltd.), Amdocs Software Systems Limited (Amdocs Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Amdocs Development Software, Amdocs Software Systems Limited (Amdocs Ltd.)
• Inventors: Levy, Meir, Kadmon, Yaron, Ben-Moshe, Dori, Kremer, Nadav, Pinto, Baruch, Kenig, Ronen
• Primary Examiner(s): Phillips, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): JONES, PRENELL P
• Application Number:
  US14/604,575
• Time in Patent Office: 830 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0813 characterised by the conditions triggering a change of settings
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/082 the condition being updates or upgrades of network functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0823 characterised by the purposes of a change of settings, e.g. optimising configuration for enhancing reliability for optimising operational conditions of wireless networks H04W24/02
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/147 for predicting network behaviour
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5054 Automatic deployment of services triggered by the service manager, e.g. service implementation by automatic configuration of network components
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5067 Customer-centric QoS measurements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/065 related to network devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 47/127 by using congestion prediction
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/0215 based on user or device properties, e.g. MTC-capable devices services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] H04W4/70; wireless resource selection or allocation plan definition based on terminal or device properties H04W72/51

Abstract

A system, method, and computer program product are provided for increasing revenue associated with a portion of a network. In use, a portion of a network associated with a communication service provider (CSP) is identified, the portion of the network corresponding to at least one customer group. Additionally, one or more network characteristics associated with the portion of the network to modify are identified for increasing revenue associated with the portion of the network. Further, the one or more network characteristics associated with the portion of the network are modified to increase revenue associated with the portion of the network.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

collecting, by a computer system, subscriber measurement reports relating to usage of a network associated with a communication service provider (CSP) by subscribers to the network, the subscriber measurement reports each indicating for a different subscriber;

bandwidth usage of the network by the subscriber, and

quality of experience of the subscriber with the network;

for each of the subscriber measurement reports, geo-locating, by the computer system, the subscriber measurement report including tagging the subscriber measurement report with a geographical position estimate associated with the usage of the network;

aggregating, by the computer system, the geo-located subscriber measurement reports according to predefined geographical areas within the network;

performing, by the computer system, pattern recognition and trend analysis on the aggregated subscriber measurement reports to predict future network usage for each of the geographical areas within the network, the future network usage indicating;

bandwidth usage of the network within the geographical area, and

quality of experience of subscribers with the network within the geographical area;

based on the future network usage predicted for each of the geographical areas within the network, identifying, by the computer system, one or more of the geographical areas within the network to modify for enhancing bandwidth and quality of experience within the one or more geographical areas within the network;

after modifying each of the one or more of the geographical areas within of the network to enhance bandwidth and quality of experience within the geographical area within the network, validating, by the computer system, growth associated with the geographical area within the network as a result of the bandwidth and quality of experience enhanced for the geographical area within the network.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the network includes a radio access network (RAN).

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the network includes a broadband network.

4. A computer program product embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, comprising:

computer code for collecting, by a computer system, subscriber measurement reports relating to usage of a network associated with a communication service provider (CSP) by subscribers to the network, the subscriber measurement reports each indicating for a different subscriber;

bandwidth usage of the network by the subscriber, and

quality of experience of the subscriber with the network;

for each of the subscriber measurement reports, computer code for geo-locating, by the computer system, the subscriber measurement report including tagging the subscriber measurement report with a geographical position estimate associated with the usage of the network;

computer code for aggregating, by the computer system, the geo-located subscriber measurement reports according to predefined geographical areas within the network;

computer code for performing, by the computer system, pattern recognition and trend analysis on the aggregated subscriber measurement reports to predict future network usage for each of the geographical areas within the network, the future network usage indicating;

bandwidth usage of the network within the geographical area, and

quality of experience of subscribers with the network within the geographical area;

based on the future network usage predicted for each of the geographical areas within the network, computer code for identifying, by the computer system, one or more of the geographical areas within the network to modify for enhancing bandwidth and quality of experience within the one or more geographical areas within the network;

after modifying each of the one or more of the geographical areas within of the network to enhance bandwidth and quality of experience within the geographical area within the network, computer code for validating, by the computer system, growth associated with the geographical area within the network as a result of the bandwidth and quality of experience enhanced for the geographical area within the network.

5. A system comprising:

a memory system; and

one or more processing cores coupled to the memory system and that are each configured to;

collect subscriber measurement reports relating to usage of a network associated with a communication service provider (CSP) by subscribers to the network, the subscriber measurement reports each indicating for a different subscriber;

bandwidth usage of the network by the subscriber, and

quality of experience of the subscriber with the network;

for each of the subscriber measurement reports, geo-locate the subscriber measurement report including tagging the subscriber measurement report with a geographical position estimate associated with the usage of the network;

aggregate the geo-located subscriber measurement reports according to predefined geographical areas within the network;

perform pattern recognition and trend analysis on the aggregated subscriber measurement reports to predict future network usage for each of the geographical areas within the network, the future network usage indicating;

bandwidth usage of the network within the geographical area, and

quality of experience of subscribers with the network within the geographical area;

based on the future network usage predicted for each of the geographical areas within the network, identify one or more of the geographical areas within the network to modify for enhancing bandwidth and quality of experience within the one or more geographical areas within the network;

after modifying each of the one or more of the geographical areas within of the network to enhance bandwidth and quality of experience within the geographical area within the network, validate growth associated with the geographical area within the network as a result of the bandwidth and quality of experience enhanced for the geographical area within the network.