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公开(公告)号：US11405798B2
公开(公告)日：2022-08-02
申请号：US16499044
申请日：2018-04-25
Applicant: Apple Inc.
IPC: G06F9/455 , H04L41/0806 , H04L41/0816 , H04L41/5003 , H04L41/5054 , H04W4/50 , H04W16/18 , H04W24/02 , H04W84/02 , H04W88/08 , H04W88/18 , H04W92/02
Abstract: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) abstracts network functions, allowing them to be installed, controlled, and manipulated by software running on standardized compute nodes such as cloud computing platform rather than on dedicated hardware. In a 5G mobile communications network, the base station or gNB may be split into virtualized and non-virtualized network functions (NFs). Described herein are systems and methods for managing such gNBs within the NFV framework.
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公开(公告)号：US20220182923A1
公开(公告)日：2022-06-09
申请号：US17440111
申请日：2020-06-12
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: Techniques for performance measurements related to application triggering and short message service (SMS) over non-access stratum (NAS) including obtaining raw performance measurements from one or more network functions in a wireless communication network, the one or more network functions including at least one of a network exposure function (NEF) or an access and mobility management function (AMF), and generating performance measurements for the one or more network functions based on the raw performance measurements.
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公开(公告)号：US20220167229A1
公开(公告)日：2022-05-26
申请号：US17440638
申请日：2020-06-04
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for self-organizing networks (SON) including automatic neighbor relation (ANR) management and physical cell identifier (PCI) configuration aspects are described. A described ANR technique includes enabling, by an ANR management function, a distributed ANR function at a node such as a gNB; receiving, by the ANR management function, a notification from the distributed ANR function indicating a change of a neighbor cell relation in a cell; and performing, by the ANR management function, an action based on the notification. Performing the action can include setting a blacklist of one or more neighbor cell relations, setting a whitelist of one or more neighbor cell relations, or changing one or more attributes of one or more neighbor cell relations.
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公开(公告)号：US20220150740A1
公开(公告)日：2022-05-12
申请号：US17435559
申请日：2020-03-26
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: In an example computer-implemented method, a management module receives measurement data from one or more first network modules of a wireless communications network. The measurement data pertains to at least one of establishing one or more communications sessions on the wireless communications network by the one or more first network modules, or modifying one or more communications sessions on the wireless communications network by the one or more first network modules. The management module generates one or more performance metrics based on the measurement data, and transmits the one or more performance metrics to one or more second network modules of the wireless communications network.
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公开(公告)号：US11284303B2
公开(公告)日：2022-03-22
申请号：US16476028
申请日：2018-02-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
IPC: H04W28/16 , H04L12/24 , H04L41/042 , H04L41/0806
Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods and apparatuses for network resource modelling to support next generation node Bs.
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26.发明授权公开(公告)号：US11234149B2
公开(公告)日：2022-01-25
申请号：US16408446
申请日：2019-05-09
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Abstract: An apparatus of a management service producer comprises one or more processors to create a measurement job for one or more NFs, NSSIs, NSIs, networks or subnetworks by receiving a CreateMeasurementJob operation request for creating a measurement job for the one or more NFs, NSSIs, NSIs, networks or subnetworks from a consumer, checking if one or more new measurement types need to be collected for the one or more NFs or constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs, requesting the NFs or the management service producer of the constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs to collect the performance data when one or more new measurements types are to be collected for the one or more NFs or constituent NSSIs or constituent NFs. The management service producer allows the consumer to choose the reporting method from performance data file reporting and performance data streaming for the collected performance data in the CreateMeasurementJob operation request.
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公开(公告)号：US20210392519A1
公开(公告)日：2021-12-16
申请号：US17283636
申请日：2019-10-30
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate generation of performance managements associated with one or more of PDU (Protocol Data Unit) session(s) and/or N4 session(s). One example embodiment is an apparatus configured to be employed in a service provider for a component of a Fifth Generation Core Network (5GC), comprising: a memory interface; and processing circuitry configured to: obtain one or more raw performance measurements from the component of the 5GC; and generate one or more performance measurements for the component of the 5GC based on the one or more raw performance measurements, wherein the one or more raw performance measurements and the one or more performance measurements are associated with one or more of a PDU (Protocol Data Unit) session or a N4 session.
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公开(公告)号：US11122457B2
公开(公告)日：2021-09-14
申请号：US15298549
申请日：2016-10-20
Applicant: APPLE INC.
Inventor： Joey Chou
IPC: H04L12/26 , H04W28/02 , H04W4/70 , H04W76/30 , H04W76/28 , H04W36/00 , H04W72/04 , H04W40/00 , H04W40/24 , H04W52/02 , H04W52/04 , H04B17/318 , H04W76/12 , H04W76/15 , H04W76/23 , H04W76/27 , H04J3/16 , H04J11/00 , H04L1/18 , H04L5/00 , H04L5/14 , H04L12/24 , H04L29/06 , H04L29/08 , H04W8/08 , H04W24/02 , H04W24/08 , H04W24/10 , H04W28/08 , H04W28/16 , H04W36/22 , H04W48/16 , H04W48/20 , H04W52/14 , H04W72/02 , H04W72/08 , H04W72/12 , H04W74/00 , H04W88/02 , H04W76/16 , H04W36/14 , H04W88/06 , H04W72/00 , H04W80/10 , H04W84/12 , H04W88/08 , H04W88/18 , H04W84/04 , H04W88/12 , H04W88/14 , H04W88/16
Abstract: Embodiments of systems and techniques are described for supporting WLAN offloading. In some embodiments, a network management system (NMS) for WLAN offloading may include a network manager (NM); a first element manager (EM), coupled to the network manager, to communicate with the network manager and one or more WLANs; and a second EM, coupled to the NM, to communicate with the NM and one or more base stations of a cellular network. Coverage areas of at least one access point (AP) of the one or more WLANs are overlaid with at least one cell of the cellular network to support a WLAN offloading operation. Further, the NM is to activate the WLAN offloading operation based at least in part on at least one indicator received from the one or more WLANs. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
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公开(公告)号：US11082299B2
公开(公告)日：2021-08-03
申请号：US16357959
申请日：2019-03-19
Applicant: APPLE INC.
IPC: H04L12/24
Abstract: An apparatus of a Network Manager (NM) comprises one or more processors to send a Network Service (NS) update request to a Network Function Virtualization Orchestrator (NFVO) to add external connectivity to a Physical Network Function (PNF) instance or a Virtual Network Function (VNF) instance in an NS instance, to receive an operation result containing a lifecycle operation occurrence identifier from the NFVO, to receive a lifecycle change notification from the NFVO indicating a start of an NS update, and to receive an NS Lifecycle Change notification from the NFVO indicating a result of the NS update. A memory is to store the result of the NS update.
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公开(公告)号：US11063844B2
公开(公告)日：2021-07-13
申请号：US16476011
申请日：2018-02-05
Applicant: Apple Inc.
Inventor： Joey Chou
Abstract: Resource usage data of a virtual machine (VM) instance is collected by an agent to be delivered to the network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) for conversion to virtual resource usage metrics to be provided to a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM) for transmission of a virtual resource usage measurement to a virtualized network function manager (VNFM). For example, an agent executing on a compute node receives virtual resource data from a compute node hypervisor. The agent provides the virtual resource data to the NFVI. The NFVI converts the virtual resource data to virtual resource usage metrics using a publishing pipeline. The NFVI uses the publishing pipeline to report the virtual resource usage metrics to a virtualized infrastructure manager. The VIM uses the data to provide virtual resource usage measurements to a virtualized network function manager (VNFM).
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