Patent Document ID: 9860770
Application ID: 15457144
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A non-transient computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon computer executable instructions, execution of which by a processing device causes the processing device to perform operations for optimizing service quality for a line of sight radio service between a transmitter and an antenna, the operations comprising: identifying an antenna on a rooftop of a residential unit having a location indicator; determining a transmitter to provide the line of sight radio service to the antenna; creating a residential units data set based on (i) a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) data set for a service area, wherein the LIDAR data set is gridded into a bare earth layer and a first return layer, and (ii) a height mask; accessing the residential units data set for the service area, wherein the residential units data set includes data representative of a plurality of residential units with each residential unit of the plurality of residential units having rooftop data and a location; conducting a cross section analysis of a line of sight from the transmitter with data representative of the rooftop to identify regions on the rooftop that have line of sight with the transmitter; and selecting a region from the identified regions for placement of the antenna based on the cross section analysis.