Patent ID: 7392017

Claim:
A method of providing information indicative of network performance by one or more wireless service providers in a geographic area, comprising: at an information provider a) receiving, via one or more wireless service provider networks, a plurality of requests for information from a corresponding plurality of end-user wireless devices; b) obtaining information that is responsive to the plurality of requests; and c) providing the information that is responsive to the plurality of requests to the one or more wireless service provider networks for delivery to the corresponding plurality of end-user wireless devices; determining, at the information provider, based on two or more of the plurality of requests, performance indicators associated with the one or more wireless service provider networks from which the two or more of the plurality of requests were received; correlating the performance indicators with one or more network service areas, and aggregating related performance indicators to produce one or more aggregated performance indicators; and producing from the one or more aggregated performance indicators a human-discernible representation of network performance for the one or more network service areas.