Patent ID: 9736706
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A managed access system for mobile wireless devices (MWDs) in a facility, the facility being geographically within a wireless communications network, the managed access system comprising: a plurality of antennas arranged at the facility; radio equipment coupled to said plurality of antennas; at least one MWD monitoring device for the wireless communications network; and a management access controller cooperating with said radio equipment to communicate with a given MWD within the facility, block outside communications via the wireless communications network when the given MWD is an unauthorized MWD, and provide outside communications when the given MWD is an authorized MWD; said management access controller cooperating with said at least one MWD monitoring device to determine whether the radio equipment and at least one MWD monitoring device both detect the given MWD and generate an indication that the given MWD is outside the facility when said at least one MWD monitoring device detects the given MWD but said radio equipment does not detect the given MWD.