Patent ID: 11902850
Assignee: AT&T TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 17:
18. A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising:
collecting network data for a plurality of cells of a cellular communication network;
identifying a particular cell of the plurality of cells is in an un-responsive state, wherein the identifying is based on the network data;
selecting a plurality of user equipment (UE) devices as UE test devices;
forcing cell reselection attempts, handover attempts, or both, by the UE test devices to communicate with the particular cell;
based on failure of the cell reselection attempts or failure of the handover attempts, confirming the particular cell is in the un-responsive state; and
communicating a restart signal from the processing system to cause the particular cell to restart to a responsive state.