US Patent Issued to Google on June 10 for "Facilitating self-organizing network (SON) enhancement" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,788, issued on June 10, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Facilitating self-organizing network (SON) enhancement" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Richard Stauffer (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Wireless networks may have thousands of configurable parameters, so manual tuning is infeasible. A self-organizing network (SON) can provide automation. However, automated algorithms are not designed to interact with a wireless network, and network experimentation can jeopardize reliability. To address the former, a SON facilitator of a wireless network management node exposes an AP...