| CPC H04W 64/006 (2013.01) [H04W 76/11 (2018.02)] | 27 Claims |
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1. A method for determining cell coverage from crowdsourced information received at a cellular entity of a data communication network, the method comprising:
obtaining, at the cellular entity, cell identity data and position data for a plurality of positions within a coverage area of a serving cell, wherein the cellular entity comprises a mobile device or computer system, and wherein, for each position:
the position data includes the respective position, and
the cell identity data includes one or more cell identities detected at the respective position of one or more mobile devices;
storing, with the cellular entity, the position data and the cell identity data; and
associating, by the cellular entity using a data structure, coverage sub-areas of the coverage area with cell identities, based on the cell identity data and position data, wherein:
each one of the coverage sub-areas is associated in the data structure with a cell identity of the serving cell, and
at least one of the coverage sub-areas being further associated in the data structure with a cell identity of a neighbor cell.
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