Patent ID: 11881988
Assignee: GEOTAB INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G  Y | IPC G  H

Claim 11:
12. The least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein:
one or more mobile devices are disposed in the network zone;
determining the expected communication rate for the network zone comprises determining, for each time frame of a plurality of time frames and based upon the device expected communication rate for each mobile device of the one or more mobile devices, a total number of communications expected to be received in the time frame from the one or more mobile devices, the plurality of time frames including the first time frame;
the method further comprises determining the actual communication rate for the network zone for the first time frame, wherein determining the actual communication rate comprises determining a total number of communications received in the first time frame from the one or more mobile devices; and
comparing for the first time frame the actual communication rate for the network zone to said expected communication rate comprises comparing the actual communication rate for the first time frame to the expected communication rate determined for the first time frame.