Patent ID: 9686151
Date: 2017-06-20
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of operating a self-organizing network comprising a plurality of access points serving a plurality of clients, the method performed by a computerized system capable of periodically obtaining data informative of network events with regard to one or more access points among the plurality of access points and to respectively served clients, data informative of priority values assigned to clients among the plurality of clients and data informative of quality with regard to the one or more access points and/or to the clients, the method comprising: a. periodically parsing data received from network data depositories to get data informative of network events; b. processing the data informative of network events with regard to the one or more access points and to respectively served clients, thereby periodically associating the clients with the one or more access points; c. periodically assessing to each of the one or more access points a value indicative of a privilege level of a given access point, the value being a function of priority values assigned to clients associated with the given access point during an assessing period; and d. using the assessed values for periodically identifying at least one access point requiring at least one corrective action in consideration of its privilege level.