Patent ID: 11956053
Assignee: BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PUBLIC LIMITED COMPANY
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method of operating a network node in a wireless telecommunications network, wherein the wireless telecommunications network includes a first access point having a first transmitter having a first coverage area, wherein the first access point serves a legitimate User Equipment (UE), the method comprising:
receiving, from a sensor, data indicative of an object within the first coverage area of the first transmitter of the first access point, the data identifying a location of the object within the first coverage area of the first transmitter of the first access point;
determining, from the data, that the object is an illegitimate user; and, in response,
causing a modification of the first access point so that the object cannot successfully receive a transmission from the first transmitter by reducing a value of signal strength of the transmission from the first transmitter at the location of the object to below a signal strength threshold representing a minimum signal strength required to successfully receive the transmission from the first transmitter; and
continuing service to the legitimate UE by causing a transfer of the legitimate UE to a second transmitter in the wireless telecommunications network.