公开(公告)号：US11838989B1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-05

申请号：US16898080

申请日：2020-06-10

申请人： Sprint Spectrum L.P.

发明人： Amrit K. Chandra ,  Liang Li ,  Chuck A. Manganiello ,  Kristian K. Johns ,  David Z. Sun ,  Jay Chernoff ,  Neehar S. Kulkarni ,  Mayur Shirwadkar

IPC分类号： H04W24/02 ,  H04W84/04 ,  H04B7/26 ,  H04W28/08 ,  H04B7/155 ,  H04W16/26

CPC分类号： H04W84/047 ,  H04B7/15542 ,  H04B7/2606 ,  H04W16/26 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W28/0983

摘要： A method and system for controlling configuration of a relay, where the relay has a coverage footprint and provides service on a first air interface having a frequency bandwidth, and where the relay is served by a donor access node over a second air interface on which the donor access node provides service. Per the disclosure, an entity detects that load on the second air interface on which the donor access node provides service is threshold high, and in response to at least that detecting, the relay is made to reduce the coverage footprint of the relay and/or to reduce the frequency bandwidth of the first air interface on which the relay provides service.

公开(公告)号：US11785630B1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-10

申请号：US17301504

申请日：2021-04-05

申请人： Sprint Spectrum L.P.

发明人： Ashish Tuli ,  Krishna Sitaram ,  Hemanth Pawar

IPC分类号： H04W72/542 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04L27/00

CPC分类号： H04W72/542 ,  H04L27/0008 ,  H04W72/0446

摘要： A method and system for controlling uplink air-interface communication over an air interface from a given user equipment device (UE) to the access node, where the uplink air-interface communication normally operates with a modulation order corresponding with a most recently determined channel quality of the given UE. An example method includes (i) detecting at least a threshold high rate of uplink voice muting on the air interface, and (ii) responsive to at least the detecting of the threshold high rate of uplink voice muting on the air interface, suppressing the modulation order used for the uplink air-interface communication from the given UE to the access node over the air interface.

公开(公告)号：US11765701B1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-19

申请号：US16905688

申请日：2020-06-18

申请人： Sprint Spectrum L.P.

发明人： Roger Bartlett ,  Lyle T. Bertz ,  Ronald R. Marquardt

IPC分类号： H04W72/00 ,  H04W72/0446 ,  H04B7/26 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W72/51 ,  H04W88/10

CPC分类号： H04W72/0446 ,  H04B7/265 ,  H04B7/2656 ,  H04W4/06 ,  H04W24/02 ,  H04W72/51 ,  H04W88/10

摘要： A method and system for dynamically reconfiguring an air interface that defines a continuum of frames each divided into a sequence of transmission time intervals (TTIs). The air interface is initially configured according to a first radio access technology (RAT). The base station then detects that at least a threshold extent of wireless client devices (WCDs) served by the base station on the air interface support operation according to a second RAT. And in response, the base station reconfigures the air interface so that certain TTIs per frame instead operate on a second RAT, with the remaining TTIs per frame still operating on the first RAT. The base station then serves WCDs that support the second RAT in the TTIs now configured according to the second RAT, while continuing to serve other WCDs according to the first RAT in the remaining TTIs configured according to the first RAT.

公开(公告)号：US12063553B1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-13

申请号：US17450862

申请日：2021-10-14

申请人： T-Mobile USA, Inc.

发明人： Rajveen Narendran ,  Sreekar Marupaduga ,  Mark Wade

IPC分类号： H04W28/26 ,  H04W16/10 ,  H04W28/02

CPC分类号： H04W28/26 ,  H04W16/10 ,  H04W28/0205 ,  H04W28/0236

摘要： A method and system for controlling air-interface resources on a radio-frequency (RF) carrier on which an access node provides wireless communication service. While the access node is set to apply at least two resource-reservations (e.g., PRB-reservations) that are mutually exclusive on the carrier, a computing system detects that resource-availability on the carrier is threshold low. And in response to the detecting, the computing system causes the access node to combine together the at least two resource-reservations on the carrier The combining together of the at least two resource-reservations on the carrier retains the at least two resource-reservations on the carrier but results in a reduction in aggregate total quantity of air-interface resources consumed by the at least two resource-reservations on the carrier.

公开(公告)号：US11849496B1

公开(公告)日：2023-12-19

申请号：US17304287

申请日：2021-06-17

申请人： Sprint Spectrum L.P.

发明人： Sreekar Marupaduga

IPC分类号： H04W76/16 ,  H04W52/42 ,  H04W36/00

CPC分类号： H04W76/16 ,  H04W52/42 ,  H04W36/0069

摘要： A method and system for controlling configuration of dual-connectivity service for a user equipment device (UE), where the dual-connectivity service would involve the UE being served concurrently by a first access node over a first connection according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and by a second access node over a second connection according to a second RAT. An example method includes selecting the second access node to be used in the dual-connectivity service of the UE, with the selecting being based cooperatively on (i) a power class of the UE and (ii) a quantity of receive antennas of the second access node. And the example method further includes, based on the selecting, configuring the dual-connectivity service for the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11758447B1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US17807996

申请日：2022-06-21

申请人： Sprint Spectrum L.P.

发明人： Sreekar Marupaduga

IPC分类号： H04W36/00 ,  H04W36/30 ,  H04W36/14

CPC分类号： H04W36/0069 ,  H04W36/14 ,  H04W36/30

摘要： A mechanism for controlling configuration of dual connectivity for a user equipment device (UE), where the dual connectivity includes the UE being served cooperatively by (i) a first access node over a first air-interface connection between the UE and the first access node and (ii) a second access node over a second air-interface connection between the UE and the second access node. An example method includes (a) predicting whether both (i) in the dual connectivity, a data split will put a threshold greater portion of data flow of the UE on the second air-interface connection than on the first air-interface connection and (ii) coverage strength of the UE from the second access node will be threshold lower than coverage strength of the UE from the first access node and (b) using the prediction as a basis to control whether or not to establish the dual connectivity for the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11723099B1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-08

申请号：US17804050

申请日：2022-05-25

申请人： Sprint Spectrum LLC

发明人： Sreekar Marupaduga

IPC分类号： H04W76/16 ,  H04W48/06 ,  H04W8/24 ,  H04W48/20

CPC分类号： H04W76/16 ,  H04W8/24 ,  H04W48/06 ,  H04W48/20

摘要： When a first access node is considering setup of dual-connectivity service for a UE, the first access node could determine that the UE supports dual-band dual-connectivity service in which the UE would be served concurrently by a first access node, under a first radio access technology (RAT) over a first connection on a first frequency band and by a second access node, under a second RAT over a second connection on a second frequency band. To help optimize service when faced with the ability to set up either single-band dual-connectivity for the UE or dual-band dual-connectivity for the UE, the first access node will set up single-band dual connectivity for the UE.

公开(公告)号：US11700584B1

公开(公告)日：2023-07-11

申请号：US17448335

申请日：2021-09-21

申请人： Sprint Spectrum L.P.

发明人： Sreekar Marupaduga ,  Rajveen Narendran

IPC分类号： H04W52/36 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W72/044 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04W92/10

CPC分类号： H04W52/367 ,  H04B7/0452 ,  H04W72/0473 ,  H04W72/12 ,  H04W92/10

摘要： A method and system for controlling application of MU-MIMO. The disclosure provides for considering a device's power class as a basis to decide whether to provide the device with MU-MIMO service. For instance, a base station could determine which of the base station's served devices that are threshold distant from the base station are each a high power device rather than a lower power device. And on at least that basis, the base station could select each such device to receive MU-MIMO service. Or faced with a choice between devices to receive MU-MIMO service, the base station could compare the devices' power classes and could select the devices that have higher power class to receive MU-MIMO service.

公开(公告)号：US11653239B1

公开(公告)日：2023-05-16

申请号：US16939402

申请日：2020-07-27

申请人： Sprint Spectrum LP

发明人： Sreekar Marupaduga

IPC分类号： H04W24/10 ,  H04W52/36 ,  H04W76/16 ,  H04W52/34 ,  H04W52/24

CPC分类号： H04W24/10 ,  H04W52/241 ,  H04W52/346 ,  H04W52/365 ,  H04W52/367 ,  H04W76/16

摘要： Systems and methods are provided for dynamically changing a channel state information (CSI) reporting protocol by adjusting CSI reporting frequency for a wireless device communicating with an access node within a wireless network. The methods and systems identify a power headroom (PHR) value at a particular wireless device and adjust the CSI reporting frequency when the PHR satisfies a predetermined threshold. The method changes the CSI reporting frequency for the wireless device to enable more frequent CSI reporting over a primary path to the access node to facilitate reallocation of resources.

公开(公告)号：US11868410B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-09

申请号：US16921518

申请日：2020-07-06

申请人： Sprint Spectrum L.P.

发明人： Kashyap Patel ,  Rajil Malhotra

IPC分类号： G06F16/00 ,  G06F16/951 ,  G06F16/9535 ,  G06F16/2455 ,  G06F16/248 ,  H04L61/4588

CPC分类号： G06F16/951 ,  G06F16/248 ,  G06F16/2455 ,  G06F16/9535 ,  H04L61/4588

摘要： A method and system for controlling processing by a data server. An example method includes a computing system receiving from a client entity a request for information, and, responsive to receiving from the client entity the request, the computing system (i) determining, based on the client entity from which the computing system received the request, a processing time limit for the data server to apply in processing a query for the information and (ii) generating and sending to the data server the query, including in the query an indication of the determined processing time limit. The data server could thus receive and process the query and impose the specified processing time limit on the processing of the received query.