Patent ID: 9351231
Filing Date: 2016-05-24
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method to determine connectivity of a NodeB and a radio network controller, comprising: identifying, with a processor, the radio network controller serving the NodeB based on a unique identifier of the radio network controller in a configuration of the NodeB; identifying, with the processor, a first connection between the NodeB and an integrated access device by comparing a first Internet protocol address in a configuration of the integrated access device with a second Internet protocol address in the configuration of the NodeB; identifying, with the processor, that a set of intermediate nodes forming a pathway between the radio network controller and the NodeB includes the integrated access device based on the comparing of the first and the second Internet protocol addresses; identifying, with the processor, a virtual circuit communicatively coupling the integrated access device and a mobile service node based on at least one of the first Internet protocol address and a third Internet protocol address in the configuration of the integrated access device, and based on a fourth Internet protocol address from a configuration of the mobile service node; identifying, with the processor, that the pathway between the radio network controller and the NodeB includes the virtual circuit; identifying, with the processor, a second connection between the integrated access device and network termination equipment by comparing a first common language location identifier code in the configuration of the integrated access device with a second common language location identifier code in a configuration of the network termination equipment; identifying, with the processor, that the pathway between the radio network controller and the NodeB includes the second connection between the integrated access device and the network termination equipment based on the comparing of the first and the second common language location identifier codes; identifying, with the processor, a third connection between the network termination equipment and an Ethernet aggregation node by comparing a first virtual network connection in the configuration of the network termination equipment to a second virtual network connection in a configuration of the Ethernet aggregation node; identifying, with the processor, that the pathway between the radio network controller and the NodeB includes the third connection between the network termination equipment and the Ethernet aggregation node; and storing, with the processor, the pathway between the radio network controller and the NodeB.