Patent Document ID: 8503336
Application ID: 11184841
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for designing, deploying or optimizing an actual communications network operating within a physical space, comprising the steps of: receiving user inputs specifying different components from a plurality of computerized components each representing a hardware device used in the actual communications network, the user inputs also specifying locations of the hardware communications devices within the physical space, and wherein each of the components in the plurality of components is associated with performance attributes; generating a computerized model of the physical space using the different components specified by the user inputs and graphically displaying the specified locations of the hardware devices on a display; predicting a performance metric for said communications network using the computerized model, wherein said performance metric is based upon the particular performance attributes associated with the computerized components representing the hardware devices used in the actual communications network and said specified locations of said different components within the physical space; and updating the display in real time to reflect the predicted performance metric for said communications network.