US 11,671,912 B2
Cellular communication network sleep management
Sarat Puthenpura, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US); Xuan Liu, Bridgewater, NJ (US); Ioannis Broustis, Basking Ridge, NJ (US); He Yan, Berkeley Heights, NJ (US); and Slawomir Stawiarski, Carpentersville, IL (US)
Assigned to AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/198,363.
Prior Publication US 2022/0295393 A1, Sep. 15, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 24/08 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0206 (2013.01) [H04W 24/08 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
identifying, by network automation equipment comprising a processor, sleep-eligible cells that are part of a cellular communication network;
sending, by the network automation equipment, sleep feature activation parameters to the sleep-eligible cells;
determining, by the network automation equipment, respective custom values for the sleep feature activation parameters at respective sleep-eligible cells of the sleep-eligible cells;
sending, by the network automation equipment, the respective custom values to the respective sleep-eligible cells, wherein the respective sleep-eligible cells are configured to use the respective custom values to trigger transitions between active states and sleep states; and
monitoring, by the network automation equipment, performance of the cellular communication network for a degraded performance according to a defined degradation criterion, wherein the degraded performance results from use of the respective custom values by the respective sleep-eligible cells.