公开(公告)号：US10862818B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-08

申请号：US15259470

申请日：2016-09-08

申请人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao ,  Hang Zhang

发明人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao ,  Hang Zhang

IPC分类号： H04L12/873 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04L12/911

摘要： there is provided a method of generating a soft schedule for the transmission of data to a User Equipment. The method includes receiving traffic to be scheduled for transmission and generating a soft schedule for the transmission of the received data in accordance with a resource allocation and the received traffic. The method further includes transmitting the soft schedule to a scheduler in an underlying network slice, for transmission to the UE. There is also provided a scheduler including a processor and machine readable memory storing machine executable instructions which when executed by the processor configures the scheduler perform the above method.

公开(公告)号：US10700936B2

公开(公告)日：2020-06-30

申请号：US15168514

申请日：2016-05-31

申请人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

发明人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

IPC分类号： H04L12/24 ,  H04W16/14

摘要： There is provided a system and method for virtual infrastructure management and in some embodiments for virtual infrastructure management between operator networks. According to embodiments, there is provided a system and a method for the requesting and provisioning of network resources including infrastructure resources, spectrum resources or both, between network operators.

公开(公告)号：US11095526B2

公开(公告)日：2021-08-17

申请号：US15809562

申请日：2017-11-10

申请人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Jaya Rao

发明人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Jaya Rao

IPC分类号： H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/08

摘要： The present application provides a system and method for accelerated network service and/or network slice provisioning in response to customer requests or requirements. The provided system and method incorporate a network service/network slice instance that is responsible for constructing and maintaining status and models associated with the dynamics of network services. A modelling function can be operated based on collected network service information to maintain a model relating to network service dynamics, and transmit indications, such as predictions of future requirements, to a corresponding network management service. The indications can be used for creation, modification, and termination of the network service, or for advanced preparation of such actions.

公开(公告)号：US20180139106A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-17

申请号：US15809562

申请日：2017-11-10

申请人： Nimal Gamini SENARATH ,  Jaya Rao

发明人： Nimal Gamini SENARATH ,  Jaya Rao

IPC分类号： H04L12/24 ,  H04L29/08

CPC分类号： H04L41/147 ,  H04L41/145 ,  H04L67/16

摘要： The present application provides a system and method for accelerated network service and/or network slice provisioning in response to customer requests or requirements. The provided system and method incorporate a network service/ network slice instance that is responsible for constructing and maintaining status and models associated with the dynamics of network services. A modelling function can be operated based on collected network service information to maintain a model relating to network service dynamics, and transmit indications, such as predictions of future requirements, to a corresponding network management service. The indications can be used for creation, modification, and termination of the network service, or for advanced preparation of such actions.

公开(公告)号：US10892949B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-12

申请号：US16242244

申请日：2019-01-08

申请人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

发明人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

IPC分类号： H04M1/66 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/20 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W88/18

摘要： A telecom connectivity service provider (TCSP) and a method for allocating an infrastructure resource to a virtual network operator (VNO). A TCSP control element sends to a downstream control element, a request for a portion of the infrastructure to be allocated to the TCSP by an infrastructure provider (InP) and receives a response from the downstream control element providing access to and control of the allocated infrastructure. The TCSP control element can pool the allocated infrastructure with other resources allocated to the TCSP and/or communicate with an upstream control element for providing access to and control of the allocated infrastructure to the VNO. The downstream control element is a local InP control element or a downstream TCSP control element. The upstream control element is a VNO control element or an upstream TCSP control element.

公开(公告)号：US10212589B2

公开(公告)日：2019-02-19

申请号：US15169465

申请日：2016-05-31

申请人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

发明人： Nimal Gamini Senarath ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

IPC分类号： H04M1/66 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/20 ,  H04M15/00 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04W88/18

摘要： A telecom connectivity service provider (TCSP) and a method for allocating an infrastructure resource to a virtual network operator (VNO). A TCSP control element sends to a downstream control element, a request for a portion of the infrastructure to be allocated to the TCSP by an infrastructure provider (InP) and receives a response from the downstream control element providing access to and control of the allocated infrastructure. The TCSP control element can pool the allocated infrastructure with other resources allocated to the TCSP and/or communicate with an upstream control element for providing access to and control of the allocated infrastructure to the VNO. The downstream control element is a local InP control element or a downstream TCSP control element. The upstream control element is a VNO control element or an upstream TCSP control element.

公开(公告)号：US10785696B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-22

申请号：US15627015

申请日：2017-06-19

申请人： Xu Li ,  Ngoc Dung Dao ,  Jaya Rao

发明人： Xu Li ,  Ngoc Dung Dao ,  Jaya Rao

IPC分类号： H04W40/02 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W40/34 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L12/751

摘要： Systems and methods for performing User Plane (UP) path selection or reselection over a communications network with a 3rd party entity, and for notifying network entities of UP changes in a communications network, are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an application program interface based request for UP path selection from the 3rd party entity; performing a validation and authorization procedure with the request; transmitting a UP path selection configuration request to a Control Plane Function that maintains configuration data; obtaining a reference number confirming the UP path selection configuration request; and installing the UP path selection according to the reference number.

公开(公告)号：US10397892B2

公开(公告)日：2019-08-27

申请号：US15886257

申请日：2018-02-01

申请人： Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

发明人： Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

IPC分类号： H04W4/00 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W28/26 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W48/16

摘要： Implementations of a registration procedure are described. The registration procedure includes a Access and Mobility Function (AMF) selection procedure and a Session Management Function (SMF) selection procedure. The AMF receives a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) registration request pertaining a User Equipment (UE). At least partially in response to the registration request: the AMF registers the UE on the network; and establishes a Protocol Data Unit (PDU) session for the UE. The AMF transmits a registration response to the UE. An access node of the network receives a Radio Resource Control (RRC) registration request from a User Equipment (UE). At least partially in response to the registration request: The access node selects an AMF, and forwards a corresponding Non-Access Stratum (NAS) registration request to the selected AMF. The NAS registration request includes PDU session request information pertaining to the UE.

公开(公告)号：US20180367288A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-20

申请号：US15947371

申请日：2018-04-06

申请人： Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

发明人： Sophie Vrzic ,  Jaya Rao

IPC分类号： H04L5/00 ,  H04L12/46 ,  H04L1/18 ,  H04L12/927 ,  H04W36/22 ,  H04W76/12 ,  H04W28/06 ,  H04W28/02 ,  H04W88/06

摘要： A method at a network node of a Radio Access network (RAN) for controlling packet duplication. The method includes: receiving, via at least one network interface of the network node, information indicative of a quality of each one of at least two radio channels including a first radio channel between a User Equipment and a master node and a second radio channel between the User Equipment and a secondary node; determining, based on the received information, a respective splitting flag value associated with each of the master and secondary nodes; and controlling packet duplication based on the respective splitting flag value associated with each of the master and secondary nodes.

公开(公告)号：US10080105B2

公开(公告)日：2018-09-18

申请号：US15178155

申请日：2016-06-09

申请人： Jaya Rao ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Xu Li

发明人： Jaya Rao ,  Sophie Vrzic ,  Xu Li

IPC分类号： H04W24/00 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W88/16

CPC分类号： H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/025 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W64/003 ,  H04W88/16

摘要： The present invention provides a system and method for managing a mobile object using a plurality of machine type communication devices (MTCDs) communicatively connected to a communication network. A mobile object can be considered a virtual MTCD which can be managed and/or tracked by an array of MTCDs which are communicatively connected with the communication network. The MTCDs detect the mobile object and obtain or determine one or more parameters indicative of movement of the object. By tracking the movement of the object, the system can substantially ensure that there are connected MTCDs in the area to which the object is moving, thereby enabling the management and/or tracking of the mobile object can be provided by actively modifying the configuration of the communication network, for example using network function virtualization.