Patent ID: 8000286
Filing Date: 2011-08-16
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method carried out by a low-cost Internet base station (LCIB) that has a backhaul connection over a packet-data network to a service-provider network, the method comprising: the LCIB providing wireless service to at least one mobile station on a first wireless network, wherein providing wireless service on the first wireless network comprises (i) providing an air interface according to a first wireless technology and (ii) bridging the air interface and the backhaul connection; the LCIB collecting operational data pertaining to the wireless service that the LCIB provides to the at least one mobile station on the first wireless network according to the first wireless technology; and the LCIB transmitting the operational data to an operational-data server over a second wireless network according to a second wireless technology, wherein the second wireless network is different than the first wireless network, and wherein the second wireless technology is different than the first wireless technology, wherein the LCIB transmits the operational data to the operational-data server in a manner that does not involve the LCIB transmitting the operational data to the operational-data server via the backhaul connection, wherein transmitting the operational data to the operational-data server comprises transmitting the operational data in response to estimating a load on the second wireless network to be less than a threshold level, and wherein estimating the load on the second wireless network to be less than the threshold level comprises determining that a reverse activity bit (RAB) is cleared.