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公开(公告)号：US11122457B2
公开(公告)日：2021-09-14
申请号：US15298549
申请日：2016-10-20
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor： Joey Chou
IPC: H04L12/26 , H04W28/02 , H04W4/70 , H04W76/30 , H04W76/28 , H04W36/00 , H04W72/04 , H04W40/00 , H04W40/24 , H04W52/02 , H04W52/04 , H04B17/318 , H04W76/12 , H04W76/15 , H04W76/23 , H04W76/27 , H04J3/16 , H04J11/00 , H04L1/18 , H04L5/00 , H04L5/14 , H04L12/24 , H04L29/06 , H04L29/08 , H04W8/08 , H04W24/02 , H04W24/08 , H04W24/10 , H04W28/08 , H04W28/16 , H04W36/22 , H04W48/16 , H04W48/20 , H04W52/14 , H04W72/02 , H04W72/08 , H04W72/12 , H04W74/00 , H04W88/02 , H04W76/16 , H04W36/14 , H04W88/06 , H04W72/00 , H04W80/10 , H04W84/12 , H04W88/08 , H04W88/18 , H04W84/04 , H04W88/12 , H04W88/14 , H04W88/16
Abstract: Embodiments of systems and techniques are described for supporting WLAN offloading. In some embodiments, a network management system (NMS) for WLAN offloading may include a network manager (NM); a first element manager (EM), coupled to the network manager, to communicate with the network manager and one or more WLANs; and a second EM, coupled to the NM, to communicate with the NM and one or more base stations of a cellular network. Coverage areas of at least one access point (AP) of the one or more WLANs are overlaid with at least one cell of the cellular network to support a WLAN offloading operation. Further, the NM is to activate the WLAN offloading operation based at least in part on at least one indicator received from the one or more WLANs. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号：US11082299B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-03
申请号：US16357959
申请日：2019-03-19
Applicant: APPLE INC.
IPC: H04L12/24
Abstract: An apparatus of a Network Manager (NM) comprises one or more processors to send a Network Service (NS) update request to a Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO) to add external connectivity to a Physical Network Function (PNF) instance or a Virtual Network Function (VNF) instance in an NS instance, to receive an operation result containing a lifecycle operation occurrence identifier from the NFVO, to receive a lifecycle change notification from the NFVO indicating a start of an NS update, and to receive an NS Lifecycle Change notification from the NFVO indicating a result of the NS update. A memory is to store the result of the NS update.
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公开(公告)号：US11063844B2
公开(公告)日：2021-07-13
申请号：US16476011
申请日：2018-02-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Joey Chou
Abstract: Resource usage data of a virtual machine (VM) instance is collected by an agent to be delivered to the network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) for conversion to virtual resource usage metrics to be provided to a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) for transmission of a virtual resource usage measurement to a virtualized network function manager (VNFM). For example, an agent executing on a compute node receives virtual resource data from a compute node hypervisor. The agent provides the virtual resource data to the NFVI. The NFVI converts the virtual resource data to virtual resource usage metrics using a publishing pipeline. The NFVI uses the publishing pipeline to report the virtual resource usage metrics to a virtualized infrastructure manager. The VIM uses the data to provide virtual resource usage measurements to a virtualized network function manager (VNFM).
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公开(公告)号：US10965522B2
公开(公告)日：2021-03-30
申请号：US16297017
申请日：2019-03-08
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: Systems and methods of managing creation and configuration for 5G networks, NFs and NSSIs are provided. An instantiation or configuration request received from a managed entity respectively instantiates or configures the appropriate element. For NF instantiation, when the NF has a virtualized part to be instantiated by a VNF, interaction with an NFV MANO system instantiates the VNF is followed by NF instantiation notification and MOI creation for the NF. For NF configuration, the NF is configured and notification provided thereof. For network instantiation, after reception of a network creation request, interaction with the system to instantiate a NS that realizes the network is followed by determination that a new VNF associated with the NS has been instantiated, creation of a NF (constituting the network) MOI is realized by the new VNF, and NF configuration. For NSSI creation, a NF constituting the NSSI is created and configured.
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公开(公告)号：US10924351B2
公开(公告)日：2021-02-16
申请号：US16408231
申请日：2019-05-09
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Joey Chou , Muthaiah Venkatachalam , Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde
Abstract: Technology for a virtualized network function manager (VNFM) in a mixed wireless network operable to facilitate instantiation of a virtualized network function (VNF) instance is disclosed. The VNFM can receive a request to instantiate a new VNF instance from a network manager (NM) via a network function virtualization (NFV) orchestrator (NFVO), the request including VNF instantiation information. The VNFM can send a request to a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) for allocating virtual resources for the new VNF instance based on the VNF instantiation information. The VNFM can receive an acknowledgement from the VIM after successful allocation of the virtualized resources for the new VNF instance. The VNFM can instantiate the new VNF instance and send an acknowledgement of the new VNF instance to the NFVO, wherein the new VNF instance is operable to ease congestion at an overloaded non-virtualized network element in the mixed wireless network.
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Patent Agency Ranking
36.发明授权公开(公告)号：US12028770B2
公开(公告)日：2024-07-02
申请号：US17427525
申请日：2020-02-13
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for identifying performance measurements for registration and handovers for user equipment (UE) and wireless network nodes. A service producer system may register a first wireless communication connection with a first UE using one or more access and mobility management functions (AMFs). The service producer system may monitor registration measurements corresponding to this registration, perform a handover for the first UE using the one or more AMFs, and monitor mobility measurements corresponding to the handover. The service producer system may select a node for a second wireless communication connection corresponding to a second UE based on the registration measurements and mobility measurements and transmit an indication of the selected node to the second UE. The measurements may include a number of requests, successful requests, measurements related protocol data unit (PDU) sessions, and measurements related to Quality of Service (QoS) flows.
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公开(公告)号：US20240137848A1
公开(公告)日：2024-04-25
申请号：US18400502
申请日：2023-12-29
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: Techniques for performance measurements related to application triggering and short message service (SMS) over non-access stratum (NAS) including obtaining raw performance measurements from one or more network functions in a wireless communication network, the one or more network functions including at least one of a network exposure function (NEF) or an access and mobility management function (AMF), and generating performance measurements for the one or more network functions based on the raw performance measurements.
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公开(公告)号：US11848815B2
公开(公告)日：2023-12-19
申请号：US17207645
申请日：2021-03-20
Applicant: Apple Inc.
IPC: H04L41/0803 , G06F8/65 , H04L41/02
CPC classification number: H04L41/0803 , G06F8/65 , H04L41/02
Abstract: Systems and methods of managing creation and configuration for 5G networks, NFs and NSSIs are provided. An instantiation or configuration request received from a managed entity respectively instantiates or configures the appropriate element. For NF instantiation, when the NF has a virtualized part to be instantiated by a VNF, interaction with an NFV MANO system instantiates the VNF is followed by NF instantiation notification and MOI creation for the NF. For NF configuration, the NF is configured and notification provided thereof. For network instantiation, after reception of a network creation request, interaction with the system to instantiate a NS that realizes the network is followed by determination that a new VNF associated with the NS has been instantiated, creation of a NF (constituting the network) MOI is realized by the new VNF, and NF configuration. For NSSI creation, a NF constituting the NSSI is created and configured.
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公开(公告)号：US11751071B2
公开(公告)日：2023-09-05
申请号：US17845002
申请日：2022-06-21
Applicant: Apple Inc.
IPC: G06F9/455 , H04L41/0806 , H04L41/0816 , H04L41/5003 , H04L41/5054 , H04W4/50 , H04W16/18 , H04W24/02 , H04W84/02 , H04W88/08 , H04W88/18 , H04W92/02
CPC classification number: H04W16/18 , G06F9/45537 , G06F9/45558 , H04L41/0806 , H04L41/0816 , H04L41/5003 , H04L41/5054 , H04W4/50 , H04W24/02 , G06F2009/45562 , G06F2009/45595 , H04W84/02 , H04W88/08 , H04W88/18 , H04W92/02
Abstract: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) abstracts network functions, allowing them to be installed, controlled, and manipulated by software running on standardized compute nodes such as cloud computing platform rather than on dedicated hardware. In a 5G mobile communications network, the base station or gNB may be split into virtualized and non-virtualized network functions (NFs). Described herein are systems and methods for managing such gNBs within the NFV framework.
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公开(公告)号：US20220321435A1
公开(公告)日：2022-10-06
申请号：US17283615
申请日：2019-10-22
Applicant: Apple Inc.
IPC: H04L43/062 , H04L43/04 , H04W24/08 , H04W24/10
Abstract: A service device (e.g., a user equipment (UE), a new radio NB (gNB), or other network component or network management component) as a service provider or a service consumer can process or generate performance data streaming in response to a request to create a performance data stream. Information overhead related to the performance data stream can be provided that enables use of the performance data stream in and through data stream units to support performance measurement collection activities.
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