Patent ID: 7729693

Claim:
A method of controlling and analyzing cellular radio communications exchanged between mobile terminals and base stations comprising the steps of: inserting a dummy mobile telephone network including a dummy base station and a dummy mobile terminal into a real network, wherein the dummy network performs transparent and synchronous decoding relaying of messages exchanged between said real network and a real mobile terminal, the real base station simultaneously transmitting to, and receiving from, the dummy mobile terminal messages following a network access protocol as if said dummy mobile terminal were a real mobile subscriber, the real mobile terminal transmitting to, and receiving from, the dummy base station communication data as if said dummy base station were a real network base station, the dummy base station and the dummy mobile terminal fully analyzing and controlling the real base station including the real mobile terminal transmission protocol and associated message contents (receive, decode, interpret, modify, encode, and transmit), wherein the analyzing and controlling comprising: dictating, the dummy mobile station, the real mobile terminal's usable frequency bands; obtaining by the dummy network authentication and mobile capability data of the real mobile station, compiling by the dummy network communication logs of characteristics of the communication exchanged with the real network, and controlling and analyzing, from the dummy network, the paging attempts of the real mobile terminals by the real network, and the access attempts of the real mobile terminals to the real network.