Patent ID: 11934430
Assignee: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A method performed by a communication system to generate an elevation visualization, wherein the method comprises:
storing, at a geospatial database, elevation data describing ground elevations and clutter elevations at a plurality of different geographic locations;
receiving, by an elevation application hosted at a cloud system and in communication with the geospatial database, a request comprising a start location and an end location from a workstation;
determining, by the elevation application, an absolute distance between the start location and the end location, an angle between the start location and the end location, and an incremental distance by which to segment a path of the absolute distance between the start location and the end location;
segmenting, by the elevation application, the path between the start location and the end location into a plurality of segments having the incremental distance;
for each of the plurality of segments:
retrieving, by the elevation application, a ground elevation of a segment of the plurality of segments and a clutter elevation of the segment from the geospatial database; and
constructing, by the elevation application, a segment vector comprising the ground elevation and clutter elevation of the segment;

constructing, by the elevation application, an elevation data structure comprising the segment vector for each of the plurality of segments, wherein an elevation visualization is generated based on the elevation data structure; and
displaying, by a workstation, the elevation visualization on top of a multilayer geographic visualization displayed on the workstation, wherein the multilayer geographic visualization depicts radio coverage data within a geographic area.