公开(公告)号：US20250088424A1

公开(公告)日：2025-03-13

申请号：US18464412

申请日：2023-09-11

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Yousif Targali ,  Shankar Venkatraman ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

IPC: H04L41/0895 ,  H04L41/0806 ,  H04W12/069

Abstract: A system described herein may maintain a set of policies associated with accessing a radio access network (“RAN”), may receive a request for a particular network function (“NF”) to access the RAN, and may determine, based on the set of policies and information included in the request, whether to grant the request to access the RAN. The system may establish, when determining that the request should be granted, connectivity between the particular NF and the RAN, where establishing the connectivity includes assigning a particular address to the particular NF, routing traffic, addressed to the particular address, to the particular NF, routing traffic, received from the particular NF, to the RAN. The system may forgo establishing connectivity between the particular NF and the RAN when determining that the request should not be granted. The RAN may include an Open RAN (“O-RAN”).

公开(公告)号：US11895537B2

公开(公告)日：2024-02-06

申请号：US17302713

申请日：2021-05-11

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Jignesh S. Panchal ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Violeta Cakulev ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

IPC: H04W28/10 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W76/10

CPC classification number: H04W28/10 ,  H04W28/0268 ,  H04W76/10

Abstract: A network device may select a first user plane function for establishing, with a user equipment, a protocol data unit session with a single flow and may receive an application function trigger associated with a first new flow for a first application of the user equipment. The network device may select a second user plane function for the first new flow and may create a first traffic filter for the first new flow. The network device may cause the first traffic filter to be provided to the user equipment so that first application traffic is routed, based on the first traffic filter, to the second user plane function and a first multi-access edge computing device associated with the second user plane function.

公开(公告)号：US11792722B2

公开(公告)日：2023-10-17

申请号：US16984451

申请日：2020-08-04

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jin Yang ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Donna L. Polehn ,  Arda Aksu ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W72/044 ,  B64C39/02 ,  H04W72/51 ,  B64U10/13

CPC classification number: H04W48/18 ,  B64C39/024 ,  H04W72/046 ,  H04W72/51 ,  B64U10/13

Abstract: A method may include transmitting multiple antenna beams to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and determining a location of the UAV. The method may also include identifying a network slice to service the UAV, assigning the identified network slice to the UAV and performing antenna beam management for the UAV while the UAV is in flight.

公开(公告)号：US20230120422A1

公开(公告)日：2023-04-20

申请号：US18068046

申请日：2022-12-19

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Yuexin Dong ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Jin Yang ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/32 ,  H04W76/38 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: Devices, methods, and computer-readable media described herein and provide for sending, by a first wireless station, a suspend message to a wireless station associated with a radio resource control (RRC) session for a dual connectivity (DC) capable user equipment (UE) device that places the DC capable UE device in an RRC inactive mode; storing, by the first wireless station, UE context information from a core network for the DC capable UE device for the RRC session; and evaluating, by the first wireless station, a set of criteria to determine whether to also store the UE context information at the wireless station

公开(公告)号：US11601947B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-07

申请号：US16995329

申请日：2020-08-17

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Arda Aksu ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi ,  David Chiang ,  Donna L. Polehn ,  Jin Yang

IPC: H04W72/04 ,  H04L47/2475 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04L67/141

Abstract: A device of a network may receive a session configuration message for an application session associated with an application of a user equipment (UE) that provided the session configuration message. The device of a network may identify, from the session configuration message, a quality of service (QoS) profile for the application session. The device of a network may determine that the application is authorized to use a network slice of the network that satisfies one or more QoS thresholds of the QoS profile. The device of a network may identify resources of the network that can be configured to satisfy the one or more QoS thresholds. The device of a network may instantiate the resources for communication of application data of the application session. Instantiating the resources may enable the UE to communicate the application data via the network slice using the resources.

公开(公告)号：US20230014126A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-19

申请号：US17931263

申请日：2022-09-12

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  James Mathison ,  Jignesh S. Panchal ,  Ratul K. Guha ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

IPC: H04W76/12 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04M15/00

Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium provide for encoding a general packet radio service (GPRS)-tunnel endpoint identifier (GTP-TEID) with data identifying radio frequency (RF) bandwidths supported in a local radio environment (LRE) from which a user equipment (UE) device accesses the wireless access station; sending, via a signaling channel, the GTP-TEID to a core network device; notifying one or more core network devices of an RF bandwidth category level corresponding to the RF bandwidths; and applying at least one of a policy rule or a charging rule to a packet data unit (PDU) session for the UE device, based on the RF bandwidth category level.

公开(公告)号：US11553544B2

公开(公告)日：2023-01-10

申请号：US17101502

申请日：2020-11-23

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Yuexin Dong ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Jin Yang ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/32 ,  H04W76/38 ,  H04W76/27

Abstract: Devices, methods, and computer-readable media described herein and provide for sending, by a first wireless station, a suspend message to a second wireless station associated with a radio resource control (RRC) session for a dual connectivity (DC) capable user equipment (UE) device that places the DC capable UE device in an RRC inactive mode; storing, by the first wireless station, UE context information from a core network for the DC capable UE device for the RRC session; and evaluating, by the first wireless station, a set of criteria to determine whether to also store the UE context information at the second wireless station.

公开(公告)号：US11503122B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-15

申请号：US17008116

申请日：2020-08-31

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Patricia R. Chang ,  Donna L. Polehn ,  Jin Yang ,  Arda Aksu ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi ,  David Chiang

IPC: H02J3/00 ,  H04L67/12 ,  H04W4/38 ,  G06T7/50

Abstract: An illustrative network management system obtains sensor data from one or more sensors at a network facility at which network equipment of a communication network is deployed. The sensor data includes image data representing imagery of the network facility. The system determines a utilization of a utility at the network facility based on the sensor data and performs, based on the utilization, a management operation for the communication network. Corresponding methods and systems are also described.

公开(公告)号：US20220353163A1

公开(公告)日：2022-11-03

申请号：US17246369

申请日：2021-04-30

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Vishwanath Ramamurthi ,  Jin Yang ,  Maria G. Lam ,  Donna L. Polehn ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Arda Aksu ,  Suzann Hua

IPC: H04L12/26 ,  H04B17/327 ,  H04W76/10

Abstract: A system described herein may receive traffic throughput metrics and energy consumption metrics associated with one or more elements of a wireless network, and compute granular (e.g., per-network slice, per-network element, per-protocol, per-layer, etc.) measures of energy efficiency associated with the one or more one or more elements. The system may determine network parameter modifications based on the granular measures of energy efficiency, and/or provide such measures of energy efficiency to the one or more network elements, which may grant access to UEs 109 based on the granular measures of energy efficiency. The one or more network elements may make network parameter modifications based on the granular measures of energy efficiency, such as activating “sleep” or “suspend” modes, and/or otherwise performing energy saving techniques.

公开(公告)号：US11386793B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-12

申请号：US16939705

申请日：2020-07-27

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Donna L. Polehn ,  Arda Aksu ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi ,  Jin Yang ,  Maria G. Lam ,  Patricia R. Chang

IPC: H04W4/00 ,  G08G5/00 ,  H04B7/185 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W84/06 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04W4/40 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04W8/18

Abstract: A device may receive a request to establish a session for a wireless communication device over a wireless network; identify the wireless communication device as an unmanned aerial vehicle; modify operating parameters of a radio access network (RAN), with which the wireless communication device has a radio resource control (RRC) link, to optimize communication between the access network and the unmanned aerial vehicle. The wireless network includes the RAN.