Method, apparatus and system for determining a location of a mobile device

    公开(公告)号:US11683660B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-06-20

    申请号:US17167918

    申请日:2021-02-04

    Inventor: Hang Zhang

    CPC classification number: H04W4/029 H04W4/40

    Abstract: There is provided a method, apparatus and system for determining a location of a mobile device operatively coupled to a wireless network such that the mobile device can locally calculate its location information with high accuracy. The method includes receiving, by a mobile device from each of one or more transmission points, a respective location information message. The transmission points belong to a wireless network and each location message is sent via broadcast transport channel designated for transmission of location information. Each location information message contains an indication of geographic location of its corresponding transmission point. The method further includes determining, by the mobile device, a location of the mobile device based on content of the location information message. The apparatus and system perform any or all of operations of the above methods and features explicitly or implicitly described.

    Methods and systems for management and control of communication network

    公开(公告)号:US11622252B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-04

    申请号:US17090817

    申请日:2020-11-05

    Inventor: Hang Zhang

    Abstract: There is provided methods, apparatus and systems for management and control of a communication network. The system includes a plurality of service providers, wherein each of the plurality of service providers belongs to a consortium and all the service providers in the consortium trust each other for actions under a rule corresponding to the consortium, wherein the rule indicates how to manage a record of the actions performed by each of the plurality of service providers. Each of the plurality of service providers is configured to provide a set of services in the communication network, wherein a set of services provided by one service provider in the consortium is in one service type and manage a creation of a record indicative of actions associated with a particular set of services that the service provider provides and a distribution of the record to one or more other service providers in the consortium.

    Methods and functions of network performance monitoring and service assurance

    公开(公告)号:US10892958B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-12

    申请号:US16526170

    申请日:2019-07-30

    Abstract: A communication service manager (CSM) apparatus for monitoring a communication network is provided. The CSM receives configuration instruction message from a higher-level device, and creates or modifies a set of tasks based on the configuration instruction message. The CSM is thus configured to interact with data provider devices to obtain specific information, process the information, and report the results of the processing operations toward a specified device or database. The data provider devices monitor network operations and may include network functions and data analytics manager (DAM) functions. A format for configuration instruction messages, for configuring the CSM, is also provided.

    System and method for providing a software defined protocol stack

    公开(公告)号:US10333779B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-25

    申请号:US13952489

    申请日:2013-07-26

    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for a framework for networks with software defined protocols (SDP) network nodes. The embodiments include a SDM controller component for managing and controlling a data plane protocol for SDP network nodes. The SDP controller also interacts with a software defined networking (SDN) controller for determining one or more paths in a network including the SDP network nodes. The SDP controller is configured to determining a break-down of data plane process functionality into a plurality of basic process function blocks for a service, traffic flow, or virtual network in accordance with network component capabilities or quality of service/experience requirement. A workflow and status information are also determined for one or more network components along a path allocated, by the SDN controller. The workflow and status information are indicated to the one or more components, which are configured to implement the workflow using the basic process function blocks.

    System and method for wireless network access protection and security architecture

    公开(公告)号:US10212585B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-02-19

    申请号:US14790743

    申请日:2015-07-02

    Inventor: Hang Zhang

    Abstract: Wireless network specific (WN-specific) key can be used to provide access protection over the radio access link. A WN-specific key may be associated with (or assigned to) a wireless network, and distributed to access points of the wireless network, as well as to user equipments (UEs) following UE authentication. The WN-specific key is then used to encrypt/decrypt data transported over the radio access link. The WN-specific key can be used in conjunction with the UE-specific keys to provide multi-level access protection. In some embodiments, WN-specific keys are shared between neighboring wireless networks to reduce the frequency of key exchanges during handovers. Service-specific keys may be used to provide access protection to machine to machine (M2M) services. Group-specific keys may be used to provide access protection to traffic communicated between members of a private social network.

    System and method for estimating an effective bandwidth

    公开(公告)号:US10091675B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-10-02

    申请号:US13920764

    申请日:2013-06-18

    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for a method of estimating an effective bandwidth of a traffic source includes obtaining a first traffic pattern from a first traffic source. Also, the method includes setting a first effective bandwidth between a mean data rate of the first traffic source and a peak data rate of the first traffic source. Additionally, the method includes determining a first outage rate of the first traffic source in accordance with the first traffic pattern and the first effective bandwidth.

    Systems and methods for user equipment mobility prediction

    公开(公告)号:US09686769B2

    公开(公告)日:2017-06-20

    申请号:US13839830

    申请日:2013-03-15

    CPC classification number: H04W64/006 G01S5/0018 G01S5/021

    Abstract: System and method embodiments for mobility prediction in a wireless network enable the wireless network to determine the location of a wireless device with minimal transmissions from the wireless device. In an embodiment, the method includes negotiating with a mobile device to determine a mobility prediction algorithm and a condition upon which the mobile wireless device will report the actual location of the mobile device, training the mobility prediction algorithm using prior mobile wireless device location and timestamp information, determining a predicted location of the mobile device using the mobility prediction algorithm, and setting an predicted location for the mobile device at a time as the actual location for the mobile device at the time when failing to receive a location report from the mobile wireless device, wherein the mobile device transmits actual location information after the training period only if the condition is met.

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