US 12,348,367 B2
Methods and systems for on-demand cell site inventory update retrieval
Jamir A. Dirksen, Casselberry, FL (US); Ivan Maldonado, Apopka, FL (US); Christopher C. Poirier, Titusville, FL (US); Paul Andrew Shinholster, Jr., Orlando, FL (US); and Roger Wilbert, Oviedo, FL (US)
Assigned to T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed by T-Mobile Innovations LLC, Overland Park, KS (US)
Filed on Aug. 28, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/457,234.
Prior Publication US 2025/0080417 A1, Mar. 6, 2025
Int. Cl. H04L 41/082 (2022.01)
CPC H04L 41/082 (2013.01) 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for on-demand cell site inventory update retrieval in a telecommunications carrier network comprising a plurality of cell sites and a radio access network (RAN), comprising:
maintaining, by an inventory application executing on a computer system in the telecommunications carrier network, a master inventory including data regarding a plurality of components in each of the cell sites in the RAN;
obtaining, by the inventory application, a request for an inventory update associated with a cell site of the plurality of cell sites, wherein the request indicates a component in the cell site;
receiving, by the inventory application from an operational support system (OSS) in the telecommunications carrier network, updated component data associated with the component in the cell site, wherein the updated component data comprises a most up-to-date version of data describing the component;
identifying, by the inventory application, a related component of the component based on a component record in the master inventory, wherein the component record is associated with the component and identifies the related component, and wherein the related component is at least one of communicatively coupled to the component in the cell site, installed at the component in the cell site, configured on a logical path with the component on the cell site, located proximate to the component on the cell site, or affected by the component in the cell site;
receiving, by the inventory application, updated related component data associated with the related component in the cell site, wherein the updated related component data comprises a most up-to-date version of data describing the related component; and
updating, by the inventory application, in the master inventory the component record associated with the component to include the updated component data and a related component record associated with the related component to include the updated related component data when the master inventory excludes the updated component data associated with the component and the updated related component data associated with the related component.