Patent ID: 7317419

Claim:
A method for determining an impact of a target device based on data pertaining to strength of an emission received from the target device, the method comprising: a. receiving an emission from the target device at each of a plurality of positions to produce receive signal strength data; b. computing an estimated position and an estimated transmit power of the target device over a plurality of candidate positions and a plurality of candidate transmit powers of the target device based on the receive signal strength data; c. storing a threshold for each of one or more parameters that are associated with a level of wireless service to be served by at least one access point device in each of one or more corresponding zones; and d. determining an impact of the target device based on the estimated position and estimated transmit power of the target device with respect to the threshold for the one or more parameters associated with a level of service in each of the one or more corresponding zones to determine whether the level of wireless service can be served in the one or more corresponding zones.