Patent ID: 8805794
Filing Date: 2014-08-12
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. One or more computer-readable media having computer-useable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of auditing data associated with a wireless telecommunications network, the method comprising: identifying a set of sectors of the wireless telecommunications network that might be the subject of a data audit, the set of sectors being a subset of all sectors in a wireless telecommunications network, each of the sectors in the set being associated with at least a portion of a coverage area of a cell in the wireless telecommunications network, the data audit being useable to identify discrepancies in information associated with each of the sectors in the set respectively, the information being stored in a plurality of different locations; determining at least one sector of the set of sectors that is to be excluded from the audit by referencing a list of identified sectors, thereby resulting in a set of one or more excluded sectors, wherein the set of one or more excluded sectors includes at least one of sectors not in service or sectors that do not provide the particular service whose data is being audited; excluding the set of one or more excluded sectors from the audit; conducting the audit on all sectors of the set of sectors except for the sectors in the set of one or more excluded sectors by comparing the information stored in each of the plurality of different locations for each of the sectors in the set of sectors that is not in the set of one or more excluded sectors; and denoting discrepancies in a sector-mismatch report.