US 12,445,955 B2
Backup site identification
Venkata Pavan Siddartha Aravind Anchala, Herndon, VA (US); Dilip Tandekar, Broadlands, VA (US); Gurpreet Sohi, Parker, CO (US); and Sourabh Gupta, Ashburn, VA (US)
Assigned to DISH WIRELESS L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US)
Filed by DISH Wireless L.L.C., Englewood, CO (US)
Filed on Feb. 16, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/170,418.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/419,954, filed on Oct. 27, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0147358 A1, May 2, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 28/02 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0206 (2013.01) [H04W 52/0296 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system, comprising:
one or more processors configured to:
identify a primary cell site, a set of hosted sites, and a plurality of backup candidate sites within a region;
determine a plurality of coverage overlap areas with the primary cell site for each backup candidate site of the plurality of backup candidate sites;
rank each backup candidate site of the plurality of backup candidate sites based on a distance between the backup candidate site and the primary cell site, a minimum distance between the backup candidate site and each of the set of hosted sites, and a coverage overlap area of the plurality of coverage overlap areas for the backup candidate site; and
cause a subset of the plurality of backup candidate sites to be displayed based on the ranking of the plurality of backup candidate sites.