Microsoft patents visual map to track 5G network performance
Microsoft describes a software tool that maps key performance indicators (KPIs) of a 5G network into a visual graph. This interface uses icons to help network engineers see how different data points connect, making it easier to find and group metrics for monitoring service quality.
In the filing’s own words
A navigation tool using a visual language is configured to interoperate with a curated catalog of KPIs that enables users associated with 5G mobile operators to implement service assurance in a graphical manner based on a unique ontological model of an operator's 5G network. The graphical navigation tool provides visually-based context to the catalog to streamline KPI selection while leveraging the cognitive benefits of the visual language to facilitate discovery, grouping, and connecting of the KPIs in a meaningful way to express essential aspects of 5G network performance.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer-implemented method for service assurance in a mobile network comprising: generating an ontology of the mobile network comprising a structured machine readable data model for network elements in the mobile network and data interfaces among the network elements; extracting a key performance indicator (KPI) graph from the ontology, the graph providing a representation of KPIs for the mobile network and associated counters, located on the network elements, configured for recording events at the data interfaces; and providing a navigation tool having a user interface (UI), the navigation tool using visual language icons on the UI for enabling relationships among the KPIs and associated counters represented in the KPI graph to be discovered by a navigation tool user, wherein the visual language icons are actionable through the navigation tool to display relationships among KPIs using a graphical representation on the UI, and wherein selection of a visual language icon visually exposes associations with a plurality of KPIs that are within a threshold distance of the KPI or counter associated with the visual language icon, wherein the threshold distance is measured as a number of edges along paths in the KPI graph.
Facts
- Company
- Microsoft (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)
- Official title
- Visual controls providing context for key performance indicators in 5G networks
- Patent number
- US12739653B2
- Application number
- 17958079
- Filed
- Sep 30, 2022
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 2
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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