Patent ID: 11930438
Assignee: CENTURYLINK INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 18:
19. A system, comprising:
one or more first sensors that monitor one or more first operational states of each of a plurality of fixed broadband network nodes between a service provider facility and a plurality of network interface devices located at a plurality of service areas;
one or more second sensors that monitor one or more second operational states of each of a plurality of wireless network nodes, the plurality of wireless network nodes comprising a plurality of wireless access points and a plurality of wireless endpoint devices, the plurality of wireless endpoint devices being located at the plurality of service areas; and
a computing system, comprising:
at least one processor; and
a non-transitory computer readable medium communicatively coupled to the at least one processor, the non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon computer software comprising a set of instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, causes the computing system to:
receive, from the one or more first sensors, information regarding one or more first operational states of each of the plurality of fixed broadband network nodes between the service provider facility and the plurality of network interface devices located at the plurality of service areas;
receive, from the one or more second sensors, information regarding one or more second operational states of each of the plurality of wireless network nodes;
analyze the received information regarding the one or more first operational states of each of the plurality of fixed broadband network nodes and the received information regarding the one or more second operational states of each of the plurality of wireless network nodes;
determine an optimal network pathway from the service provider facility to one or more wireless endpoint devices, through a determined first combination of fixed and wireless network nodes, based at least in part on the analysis of the received information regarding the one or more first operational states and the received information regarding the one or more second operational states, the determined first combination of fixed and wireless network nodes comprising one or more fixed broadband network nodes of the plurality of fixed broadband network nodes and one or more wireless network nodes of the plurality of wireless network nodes; and
establish the determined optimal network pathway from the service provider facility to the one or more wireless endpoint devices, through the determined first combination of fixed and wireless network nodes,
wherein receiving information regarding the one or more second operational states comprises obtaining information comprising at least one of power levels, channel width, channel number, frequency of use of each channel, antenna elements, modulation coding scheme information, signal preconditioning, or cyclic prefix, wherein the modulation coding scheme information comprises at least one of modulation level, forward error correction (“FEC”) type, or multiple-input multiple-output (“MIMO”) rank.