Clearinghouse System, Method, and Process for Inventorying and Acquiring Infrastructure, Monitoring and Controlling Network Performance for Enhancement, and Providing Localized Content in Communication Networks
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Abstract
A computerized system, method and process allows telecommunications carriers to find, evaluate and select locations for equipment through direct access to end users, while providing citizens the opportunity to offer the use of their dwelling or other assets to carriers. The system and method further provides a computerized mechanism for (a) creating an inventory and marketplace for available properties for use in telecommunications networks, (b) providing quality and/or performance monitoring and control for wireless communication systems based on data in the clearinghouse, and (c) providing localized content over wireless networks using the clearinghouse.
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73 Claims
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33. A method for providing a clearinghouse system for communications networks, comprising the steps of:
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providing one or more computers which interface with a database, said database including records pertaining to one or more telecommunications carriers which identify infrastructure for one or more telecommunications carriers in terms of one or more of (i) types of equipment and performance characteristics for said types of equipment, (ii) location information including one or more of geographical areas, and (iii) business terms for telecommunications services or for provision of said infrastructure, and records pertaining one or more end users which identify one or more of (i) telecommunications assets or devices or equipment owned or controlled by one or more of said end users, (ii) property assets owned or controlled by one or more of said end users, (iii) locations or types of devices or equipment used by one or more of said end users, (iv) performance, quality of service, or perceived value experienced or desired by one or more of said end users at one or more locations, and (v) desired business terms or preferences for use of said telecommunications assets, said devices, said equipment or said property assets by one or more of said end users; permitting, using said one or more electronic interfaces to said one or more computers, said one or more telecommunications carriers or one or more of said end users or one or more third parties to selectively use, view, collect, or catalog information about one or more of (a) available telecommunications assets or properties and locations thereof, (b) locations or types of equipment or devices or property assets used by one or more of said end users (c) the owners or tenants of said available telecommunications assets or properties, (d) infrastructure needs of one or more telecommunications carriers, (e) proposed business terms for fulfilling said infrastructure needs with said telecommunications assets or said property assets, and (f) performance of quality of service experienced by one or more of said end users; and either or both providing access to information associated with said records in said clearinghouse system or providing a notification to either or all of; one or more of said end users, one or more of said one or more telecommunications carriers; one or more of said third parties who are not end users or a telecommunications carrier, wherein notification is performed when one or more of the following events occur; (1) one or more of said end users, or one or more of said one or more telecommunications carriers, or one or more of said third parties who are not end users or a telecommunications carrier request information associated with records in said clearinghouse system pertaining to either one or more telecommunications carriers or one or more of said end users, (2) suitable available telecommunications assets or properties for said infrastructure needs of said one or more telecommunications carriers at one or more locations are identified (3) performance, quality of service, or perceived value of delivered telecommunications service for one or more of said end users, or said one or more telecommunications carriers, becomes worse or better than a specified tolerance or desired performance level as specified by one or more of said end users, (4) performance, quality of service, or perceived value of delivered telecommunications service for one or more of said end users, or said one or more of said one or more telecommunications carriers, becomes worse or better than a specified tolerance or desired performance level as specified by one or more of said telecommunications carriers, and (5) performance, quality of service, or perceived value of delivered telecommunications service for one or more of said end users, or said one or more telecommunications carriers, becomes worse or better than a specified tolerance or desired performance level as specified by one or more of said third parties. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60)
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61. A method for providing a clearinghouse for communications networks, comprising:
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providing one or more computers which interface with a database, the database including performance, quality of service, or perceived communications service quality or value information for one or more locations, and one or more of records pertaining to one or more telecommunications carriers which identify infrastructure type and/or location information for one or more locations, and public records which include, for a plurality of geographic locations, one or more of maps, location coordinates, or mapping information for said geographic locations, zoning information for said geographic locations, local ordinances for said geographic locations, contact information for government officials for said geographic locations, and information about one or more carriers serving said geographic locations; updating in said database either automatically or manually, using one or more electronic interfaces to said one or more computers, performance, quality of service, or perceived telecommunications service value information, experienced or desired, obtained from one or more mobile or fixed devices; and permitting at least one of said one or more telecommunications carriers or one or more end users of said one or more telecommunications carriers, or one or more parties which are not telecommunications carriers or end users to review, catalog, store, view, use, or sort information in said database. - View Dependent Claims (62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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70. A method of providing selected content to one or more mobile or fixed devices located in specific locations, comprising the steps of:
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providing a clearinghouse system for communications networks, said clearinghouse system including one or more computers which interface with a database, said database including one or more of performance or quality of service or perceived telecommunications service quality or value information, experienced or desired, for one or more locations, records for one or more telecommunications carriers which identify infrastructure information for one or more locations, records for one or more end users which identify equipment, devices, telecommunications assets or property assets owned, used, or controlled by said one or more end users, and public records which include, for a plurality of geographic locations, one or more of maps, location coordinates, or mapping information for said geographic locations, zoning information for said geographic locations, local ordinances for said geographic locations, contact information for government officials for said geographic locations, and information about carriers serving said geographic locations; permitting one or more mobile or fixed devices to be in communication with said clearinghouse system using one or more electronic interfaces to said one or more computers to perform one or more of updating, either automatically or manually, performance or quality of service or perceived telecommunications service value information obtained from said one or more mobile or fixed devices that are located in one of said one or more locations into said database, and at least one of said one or more telecommunications carriers or said one or more end users or one or more parties which are not telecommunications carriers or end users reviewing, cataloging, viewing, storing, using, or sorting information in said database; identifying a geographic location of one or more mobile or fixed devices; and providing localized content to said one or more mobile or fixed devices using said geographic location and one or more local ad servers in communication with said one or more electronic interfaces of said clearinghouse system. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72, 73)
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