Patent ID: 7738864

Claim:
A mobile communication device for measuring performance of a provider of communications services, the device comprising: means for receiving a range of frequencies of electromagnetic waves, the range including a modulated voice signal; means for measuring an average power received from the range of frequencies at each measurement interval when the device is in use; means for demodulating a subset of the range to produce a demodulated voice signal; means for recording the time that the average power received is measured; means for measuring a voice quality measurement of the demodulated voice signal when the device is in use, the voice quality measurement based on acoustical properties of human hearing; means for associating the time that the voice quality measurement is measured; means for identifying the location of the device; means for programming the mobile communication device to collect data points for measurements of the average power received, measurements of the time at which the average power received is measured, or the voice quality measure and for the location of the device, wherein the data points are collected based on a metric selected from the group consisting of a time interval metric and a distance movement metric; means for transmitting at a variable reporting interval a set of data comprising; all data points collected for the measurement of the average power received from the range and the time at which the data points for the measurement of the average power received were made; all data points collected for the measurement of the voice quality measurement and the time at which the data points for the measurement of the voice quality were made; and the location of the device at the time at which the collection of the data points for the measurement of the voice quality and the measurement of the average power received were collected.