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公开(公告)号：US20250168750A1
公开(公告)日：2025-05-22
申请号：US18729089
申请日：2023-01-11
Inventor： Ian NEILD , Andrew REEVES
IPC: H04W48/10 , H04W72/0446 , H04W84/12
Abstract: A method of operating a wireless telecommunications network, said network comprising a plurality of User Equipment devices, UEs, a Wireless Access Point, WAP, and a Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN, provided by means of the WAP, the method comprising the steps of: associating, against each of the plurality of UEs, an item of information and a unique timeslot; determining a current time, and from said determination identifying, from the associated timeslots, a timeslot within which the current time coincides; broadcasting, by means of the WAP, for the WLAN, a network identifier comprising the item of information associated with the identified timeslot; identifying, by means of each of the UEs, the broadcast network identifier; and subsequently processing, by means of the UE associated with the identified timeslot, the identified network identifier, such that said UE derives the item of information allocated to said UE.
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公开(公告)号：US20240171973A1
公开(公告)日：2024-05-23
申请号：US18551327
申请日：2022-02-21
Inventor： Andrew REEVES , MohammadHossein ZOUALFAGHARI , Ian NEILD
Abstract: A method 200 of operating a telecommunications network (100), the telecommunications network comprising: User Equipment (UE) (110); a first Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) (130), identifiable by means of a first network identifier: a hidden WLAN (130); and a target WLAN (130); and the method comprising the steps of: configuring the hidden WLAN so as to have a hidden network identifier that is cryptographically derived from the first network identifier (240)); by means of the UE: retrieving, from the first WLAN, the first network identifier (230); cryptographically processing the retrieved first network identifier thereby to derive the hidden network identifier (240); searching for a WLAN using the derived hidden network identifier (250): and requesting a connection to, or via, the target WLAN only after discovering the hidden WLAN (270). There is also provided a method of operating the User Equipment (UE), a method of operating set of Wireless Access Points (120), as well as User Equipment, a set of Wireless Access Points. and a telecommunications system therefor.
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公开(公告)号：US20250119713A1
公开(公告)日：2025-04-10
申请号：US18708489
申请日：2022-10-11
Inventor： Andrew REEVES , Ian NEILD , MohammadHossein ZOUALFAGHARI
Abstract: A method of operating a wireless telecommunications network, said network comprising a plurality of User Equipment devices, UEs, a Wireless Access Point, WAP, and a Wireless Local Area Network, WLAN, provided by means of the WAP, the method comprising the steps of: allocating, to each of the plurality of UEs, an item of information; encoding, by code-division multiplexing, the allocated items of information, thereby to output a signal string; assigning to the WLAN a network identifier, wherein said network identifier is derived from the output signal string; broadcasting, by means of the WAP, the assigned network identifier; retrieving, by means of each of the UEs, the signal string from the broadcast network identifier; and subsequently performing, by each of the UEs, code-division demultiplexing upon the retrieved signal string, each given UE thereby outputting the item of information allocated to that given UE. Methods of operating the UE and WAP are also described, as well as the wireless telecommunications network, UE and the WAP.
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公开(公告)号：US20230132802A1
公开(公告)日：2023-05-04
申请号：US17915404
申请日：2021-03-01
Inventor： MohammadHossein ZOUALFAGHARI , Nektarios GEORGALAS , Andrew REEVES
Abstract: A computer-implemented method (300) of monitoring a computational system (100), said computational system comprising a plurality of interoperating computing components (210) for performing computational operations thereby to provide a computational service to a user (120), wherein said computational system comprises a plurality of performance requirements based on at least one performance attribute, the method comprising the steps of: selecting a performance attribute associated with a performance requirement of the computational system (310); identifying a set of computing components from the plurality of computing components, wherein each of the computing components in the set perform operations affecting the selected performance attribute (320); determining a mapping of relationships for the computing components in the identified set in relation to the selected performance attribute; retrieving a performance status of a computing component in the identified set (320); and in dependence on said determined mapping and said retrieved performance status, calculating a probability of the identified set complying with the performance requirement for the selected performance attribute (340).
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公开(公告)号：US20240414001A1
公开(公告)日：2024-12-12
申请号：US18696816
申请日：2022-09-08
Inventor： Andrew REEVES , Nektarios GEORGALAS
Abstract: A data access control system is provided together with methods, computer systems and computer programs for processing transactions to be recorded in a distributed ledger that is shared amongst a plurality of computing nodes and for controlling access to data recorded in the distributed ledger. The system comprises a policy store comprising one or more policies for controlling access to at least some of the data recorded in a distributed ledger that is shared amongst a plurality of computing nodes, each policy comprising one or more constraints on accessing the data. The system further comprises a key store for storing cryptographic keys. The system further comprises a transaction processor configured to: receive a transaction from one of the computing nodes: encrypt a payload of the transaction using a secret key to generate an encrypted transaction for recording in the distributed ledger; and store the secret key in the key store in association with an indication of the encrypted transaction. The system further comprises a data access module configured to: receive a request for access to the pay load of the encrypted transaction from one of the computing nodes: determine whether the constraints specified by the one or more policies on accessing data contained in the payload are satisfied; and in response to determining that the constraints are satisfied: retrieve the secret key from the key store; and use the secret key to provide access to the data for the computing node.
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公开(公告)号：US20240276219A1
公开(公告)日：2024-08-15
申请号：US18568182
申请日：2022-05-10
Inventor： Andrew REEVES , MohammadHossein ZOUALFAGHARI , Ian NEILD
Abstract: A telecommunications network comprises: User Equipment (UE); a Wireless Access Point (WAP), identifiable by a network device identifier; a source Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN), provided by means of the WAP and identifiable by means of a source network identifier; and a target WLAN. A method of operating the network comprises: generating a cryptographic output by performing a cryptographic function upon both the source network identifier and the network device identifier; assigning, to the target WLAN, access credentials, wherein said access credentials comprise the cryptographic output; and by means of the UE: identifying the source network identifier and the network device identifier; cryptographically processing the identified source network identifier and the identified network device identifier so as to derive the cryptographic output; and requesting a connection to, or via, the target WLAN using access credentials derived by the UE from said cryptographic output.
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