Patent ID: 9736700
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: H04B,H04W

Claim:
1. A method of adapting cellular communication radio resources, comprising: for each cell site identified in an inventory of RAN equipment, where the RAN equipment comprises a plurality of cell sites and each cell site is identified in the inventory as comprising at least three of a radio power amplifier, a radio transceiver, a baseband processor, an enhanced node B (eNB), a base transceiver station (BTS), and a remote radio head (RRH), accessing by a computer system a network management system (NMS) of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) that provides at least some of the cell site equipment; for each cell site identified in the inventory of RAN equipment, reading by the computer system cell site equipment setting information from the NMS; analyzing by the computer system the cell site equipment setting information to determine radio frequency channels deployed at each cell site identified in the inventory of RAN equipment, power amplifier settings at each cell site, cellular communication technologies deployed at each cell site, and antenna settings at each cell site to determine a cellular coverage area provided by each cell site by cellular communication technology and by radio frequency channel; receiving an input by the computer system that defines a reallocation of a plurality of code division multiple access (CDMA) radio channels of a first one of the cell sites in an area to a single long term evolution (LTE) radio channel at the first one of the cell sites in the area; analyzing by the computer system a projected ripple effect on communication service by a plurality of other cell sites in the area; and presenting by the computer on a user interface display a map of the area overlaid with a graphical indication of cellular communication radio resources owned or leased by a service provider in the area and overlaid with a graphical indication of cellular coverage areas by each cell site within the area by cellular communication technology and by radio frequency channel based on the projected ripple effect.