Patent ID: 9426665
Filing Date: 2016-08-23
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for quantifying a total number of customers impacted by a cellular tower outage, the method comprising: monitoring, by a processor, a plurality of cellular towers; detecting, by the processor, a failure of one of the plurality of cellular towers; identifying, by the processor, a subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in an affected region, wherein the subset of the plurality of cellular towers comprises a cellular tower having a statistically significant change in a number of customers that is served by the cellular tower, wherein the statistically significant change comprises: calculating, by the processor, a number of additional customers served by each one of the subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in the affected region due to the failure of the one cellular tower; and quantifying, by the processor, the total number of customers impacted by the failure of the one cellular tower by adding the number of additional customers served by the each one of the subset of the plurality of cellular towers that are included in the affected region.