Patent ID: 7164883
Filing Date: 2007-01-16
Classification: G06Q,H04W

Abstract:
1. A network management system for a wireless communications network, comprising: a plurality of components distributed within a physical environment, at least one of said plurality of components being used to provide infrastructure necessary for wireless communications; at least one measurement device for measuring at least one wireless communication performance data pertaining to the wireless communications network; one or more computer platforms, that communicate with at least one or more of said plurality of components, on which a computerized site specific model of said physical environment is displayed, said computerized site specific model presenting on a display a representation of said physical environment with computer representations of said plurality of components distributed in said representation of said physical environment, and information pertaining to said at least one wireless communication performance data in said physical environment, wherein at least one of said computer representations of said plurality of components is associated with at least one of cost data, infrastructure data, maintenance data, ownership data, performance data, installation data, depreciation data, and equipment settings, said one or more computer platforms providing at least one of: (I) an indication that said at least one wireless communications performance data measured by said at least one measurement device is or is not satisfactory in the wireless communications network; or (II) control signals or instructions for adjusting one or more parameters of one or more of said plurality of components distributed within said physical environment.