公开(公告)号：US11240861B2

公开(公告)日：2022-02-01

申请号：US16721052

申请日：2019-12-19

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: H04W24/04 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W36/28 ,  H04W48/10 ,  H04W76/16 ,  H04W88/08

Abstract: A method for activating bearers in radio access networks includes receiving information regarding channel conditions for a secondary RAT; identifying a first set of radio bearers for a primary RAT and a second set of radio bearers for the secondary RAT based on the received channel conditions; and establishing the first set of radio bearers associated with the primary RAT. The method may also include providing a message to a core network indicating that first set of radio bearers have been established for the primary RAT, the message includes an indication that the second set of radio bearers will be established after the core network has been configured for operation with the first set of radio bearers; reconfiguring a UE for establishing the second set of radio bearers associated with the secondary RAT; and indicating that the reconfiguration of the UE for the second set of radio bearers is complete.

公开(公告)号：US11228896B2

公开(公告)日：2022-01-18

申请号：US16577534

申请日：2019-09-20

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Hossein M. Ahmadi ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Violeta Cakulev ,  Robert Avanes ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: H04W12/06 ,  H04W8/12 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W8/20

Abstract: A roaming platform is disclosed herein. The roaming platform may receive, via a first communication protocol, an authentication request associated with a user equipment (UE), wherein the UE is subscribed to communicate via a first radio access technology of a home network, and wherein the authentication request is associated with enabling the UE to communicate via a visitor network that utilizes a second radio access technology. The roaming platform may identify an identifier associated with the UE in the authentication request. The roaming platform may determine, based on the identifier, a serving component of the home network that is configured to serve the UE. The roaming platform may obtain, from the serving component, authentication information associated with the UE, wherein the authentication information is obtained via a second communication protocol. The roaming platform may provide, based on the authentication information, an authentication response to the authentication request.

公开(公告)号：US20220014455A1

公开(公告)日：2022-01-13

申请号：US16924780

申请日：2020-07-09

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: H04L12/26 ,  H04L29/06

Abstract: A system described herein may provide for the tracking and/or calculating of performance metrics associated with a network by marking traffic and determining performance characteristics of the marked traffic. Such performance characteristics or metrics may include throughput, latency, jitter, and/or other metrics. The marking may be performed on “user” traffic, which may be traffic that is generated or sent via the network by an application or service (e.g., a voice call service, a content streaming service, etc.), as opposed to “synthetic” or “test” traffic, which is traffic that is generated or sent for the purposes of testing performance of the network (e.g., traffic related to a “speed test” or the like).

公开(公告)号：US11212344B1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-28

申请号：US17008139

申请日：2020-08-31

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

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

IPC: G06F15/173 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: An illustrative workload management system obtains resource utilization data representing utilization of network equipment of a communication network, obtains utilities data representing information about utilities at network facilities at which the network equipment is deployed, and assigns, based on the resource utilization data and the utilities data, a workload among the network equipment deployed at the network facilities. Corresponding methods and systems are also described.

公开(公告)号：US11064422B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-13

申请号：US16414236

申请日：2019-05-16

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil

IPC: H04W48/04 ,  H04W4/24 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04W76/10 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W60/04 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A network device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a request for a session management (SM) policy association in relation to establishment of a packet data unit (PDU) session for a particular user equipment (UE) device; requesting, from a second network device, access and mobility (AM) policy decisions pertaining to the UE device; receiving AM policy decisions from the second network device, and creating the SM policy association based on at least the received AM policy decisions. The request for SM policy association includes an identifier associated with the second network device. The processor may be further configured to determine whether the network device is the same as the second network device based on the identifier; and transmit a request to the second network device when it is determined that the second network device is not the same as the first network device.

公开(公告)号：US20210153100A1

公开(公告)日：2021-05-20

申请号：US16688087

申请日：2019-11-19

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Arda Aksu ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Vishwanath Ramamurthi

IPC: H04W40/24 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W84/18 ,  H04L1/00 ,  H04L12/26

Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for the discovery and connection of Mesh Distributed Units (“MDUs”), which may establish a mesh topology and perform wireless backhaul of data between a core network and a User Equipment (“UE”). Multiple MDUs in an MDU network may be connected to establish an MDU route. One or more connected MDUs may broadcast an indication that the MDU is available to connect, one or more performance metrics, or an MDU performance score based on performance metrics. This broadcast may iteratively repeat in order to refine the mesh network topology in an ongoing process.

公开(公告)号：US20210120452A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-22

申请号：US16654112

申请日：2019-10-16

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Donna L. Polehn ,  Jin Yang

IPC: H04W28/08 ,  H04W48/18 ,  H04W28/02

Abstract: A network device receives control plane (CP) traffic transiting a first mobile network. The network device determines CP traffic loads handled by network functions of the first mobile network and determines availability of CP resources within the first mobile network. The network device performs at least one of load balancing, network selection or overload protection, when switching the CP traffic from a source to a destination, based on the determined CP traffic loads and/or the determined availability of CP resources.

公开(公告)号：US20210105191A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-08

申请号：US16595604

申请日：2019-10-08

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jin Yang ,  Arda Aksu ,  Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Daryl M. Low ,  Donna L. Polehn

IPC: H04L12/24 ,  G06F11/34 ,  H04L12/26 ,  H04L29/08

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network allocation service is provided. The network allocation service may use available network resource information of an application service layer network of a first type, such as a multi-access edge computing network, and application service demand information of an application to determine whether a performance metric of the application service would be satisfied. The performance metric may include a threshold service time that includes a processing time associated with a processing of an application service request and response, by the application service layer network, and a transit time associated the application service response from the application service layer network to an end device. The network allocation service may select the first type or a second type of application service layer network depending on the outcome of the determination.

公开(公告)号：US10861046B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-08

申请号：US15594407

申请日：2017-05-12

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc. ,  Cellco Partnership

Inventor： Lalit R. Kotecha ,  Sagiv Draznin ,  Jude M. Munn

IPC: G06Q30/02

Abstract: A device may broadcast content (e.g., using Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS), evolved MBMS (eMBMS), or Cell Broadcast Service (CBS)); determine that a user device has received the content; determine analytics information regarding the user device; identify, based on the analytics information, personalized content for the user device; and output, to the user device, the personalized content. The user device may receive the broadcasted content; present the broadcasted content; output an indication that the broadcasted content is being presented; receive the personalized content that was generated based on the outputted indication; and present the personalized content in conjunction with the broadcasted content. The user device may further receive content that has been personalized for other user devices, and a network layer of the user device may discard the content personalized for other user devices before an application layer of the user device receives the content personalized for the user device.

公开(公告)号：US10764938B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-01

申请号：US16109310

申请日：2018-08-22

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Violeta Cakulev ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Lalit R. Kotecha

IPC: H04W76/10 ,  H04W8/08 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W92/24

Abstract: A network device receives an attach request indicating that a user device is attempting a connection associated with a non-access stratum (NAS) and a particular interface, and generates a create session request that includes an indication that the connection for the user device is associated with the NAS and the particular interface. The network device provides, to a serving gateway (SGW) of the network, the create session request that includes the indication, and receives, from the SGW, a create session response that includes rules for handling the connection for the user device that is associated with the NAS and the particular interface, wherein the rules have been generated by a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) of the network. The network device provides, to the user device, an attach accept, that includes the rules, to permit the user device is to connect with the network and to utilize the rules.