Patent ID: 11968651
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A base station, comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
receive, from a management platform, a request for the base station to obtain radar data associated with an area of the base station;
allocate, based on the request, wireless communication resources of the base station to configure a synthetic wireless communication signal as a radar signal, the synthetic wireless communication signal being configured as the radar signal according to a protocol of a wireless communication network, wherein the wireless communication network includes at least one of:
a cellular network,
a public land mobile network (PLMN),
a local area network (LAN), or
a wide area network (WAN);
transmit the synthetic wireless communication signal;
obtain a reflected signal that is associated with the synthetic wireless communication signal;
process the reflected signal to generate the radar data; and
provide information associated with one or more objects in the area that are identified based on the radar data.