Patent ID: 8768337

Claim:
A method implemented in a computer system for base station power control in a mobile network, wherein the mobile network covers a plurality of geographic regions and wherein a plurality of users are in communication with the mobile network, the method comprising: receiving, by the computer system, historic data, wherein the historic data comprises data that is indicative of historic dropped calls within a respective one of each of the plurality of the geographic regions; receiving, by the computer system, real-time data, wherein the real-time data comprises data that is indicative of real-time dropped calls within a respective one of each of the plurality of the geographic regions; determining by the computer system, based at least in part upon the received historic data and the received real-time data, a first underperforming geographic region, wherein the first underperforming geographic region is determined as one of the plurality of geographic regions having a higher occurrence of dropped calls based on a percent occurrence of dropped calls relative to a number of users than at least one of the other plurality of geographic regions; determining by the computer system whether a first one of the plurality of users is communicating with the mobile network from the first underperforming geographic region; and adjusting a base station transmission power in the first underperforming region for the first user after it has been determined that the first user is communicating with the mobile network from the first underperforming geographic region; wherein the adjustment of the base station transmission power in the first underperforming region for the first user results in at least one less dropped call for the first user while in the first underperforming region than would have occurred in the absence of the adjustment of the base station transmission power in the first underperforming region for the first user.