公开(公告)号：US10917931B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-09

申请号：US16176811

申请日：2018-10-31

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Hui Zhao ,  Andrew E. Youtz ,  Xin Wang ,  Samirkumar Patel ,  Lily Zhu

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W76/11 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W48/16 ,  H04W36/00 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W84/04

Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which cell selection management service is provided. An Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access-New Radio (E-UTRA-NR) Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) capable end device uses a system information block message to determine whether a wireless station is an EN-DC capable anchor device. Also, the EN-DC capable end device may store a permanent tracking area forbidden list that includes tracking area identifiers pertaining to non-EN-DC capable anchor devices that include femtocell devices.

公开(公告)号：US10893448B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-12

申请号：US15995646

申请日：2018-06-01

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Jignesh S. Panchal ,  Yuexin Dong ,  Andrew E. Youtz ,  Lily Zhu ,  Samirkumar Patel

IPC: H04W76/15 ,  H04W36/08 ,  H04W76/27 ,  H04W48/20 ,  H04W76/30

Abstract: A wireless station of a radio access network receives a reselection priority value of a frequency band used when the wireless station is an E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) anchor. The wireless station broadcasts an intra-frequency system information block (SIB) that includes a first Cell Reselection Priority information element (IE) and a first Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE, wherein the first Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE includes the reselection priority value of the frequency band used by the wireless station. The wireless station also broadcast an inter-frequency SIB that includes a second Cell Reselection Priority IE and a second Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE, wherein the second Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE includes another reselection priority value of another frequency band for another EN-DC anchor. Use of additional anchor-cell priorities enable EN-DC-capable end devices to camp on an anchor cell even when a non-anchor cell has a higher conventional priority than the anchor cell.

公开(公告)号：US20210006535A1

公开(公告)日：2021-01-07

申请号：US17026565

申请日：2020-09-21

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Stephen J. Kolanowski ,  Samirkumar Patel ,  Angel V. Gomez ,  Snehal Desai

IPC: H04L29/12 ,  H04W80/10 ,  H04W8/20 ,  H04W4/50

Abstract: A method, device, and computer-readable medium are provided for sending, by a customer-premises equipment (CPE) device to a wireless access device via a CPE network interface, an Internet protocol (IP) address lease request, wherein the wireless access device terminates a wireless backhaul connection to a service provider network; receiving, responsive to the IP address lease request, an acknowledge message that includes a requested IP address and a protocol configuration option (PCO) providing identification information for the wireless access device; connecting, via the wireless access device and using the requested IP address, to a bootstrap server device associated with the service provider network; receiving, via the wireless access device, attachment information associated with a network management server and the service provider network; and sending, via the wireless access device, the identification information to the network management server in an attachment procedure using the attachment information.

公开(公告)号：US10887831B2

公开(公告)日：2021-01-05

申请号：US16430974

申请日：2019-06-04

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Lily Zhu ,  Christopher M. Schmidt ,  Balaji L. Raghavachari ,  Andrew E. Youtz ,  Xin Wang ,  Samirkumar Patel

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W48/10

Abstract: A network device identifies, prior to a user device establishing a connection with a network advanced network features associated with network areas. The network device selects a network indication that indicates one or more of the advanced network features associated with one of the network areas, and provides the network indication to the user device.

公开(公告)号：US10827555B2

公开(公告)日：2020-11-03

申请号：US16656983

申请日：2019-10-18

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Xin Wang ,  Andrew E. Youtz ,  Hui Zhao ,  Lily Zhu ,  Samirkumar Patel ,  Balaji L. Raghavachari

IPC: H04W76/27 ,  H04W56/00 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W16/28 ,  H04L5/00 ,  H04W72/08 ,  H04B17/00 ,  H04B7/06 ,  H04W4/70

Abstract: A device, a computer-readable medium, and a method provide for determining, based on a network synchronization signal, a signal power value for a wireless communication; determining, based on the network synchronization signal, a signal quality value for the wireless communication; generating, using the signal power value and the signal quality value, a signal strength associated with a next generation network connection; determining a state of the device, wherein the state relates to a next generation network connection state and a fourth generation (4G)/Long Term Evolution (4G/LTE) network connection state of the device; providing for display a network indicator indicating whether the device is associated with a 4G/LTE network connection or the next generation network connection, wherein the network indicator is based on the state of the device; and providing, for display, a first signal indicator indicating the signal strength.

公开(公告)号：US12250153B2

公开(公告)日：2025-03-11

申请号：US17816444

申请日：2022-08-01

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Bharadwaj Vemuri ,  Deepa Jagannatha ,  Lily Zhu ,  Samirkumar Patel

IPC: H04L47/24

Abstract: A device described herein may maintain information associating sets of traffic attributes with respective sets of Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters, and may receive a request to establish a traffic flow. The request may indicate one or more traffic attributes associated with the requested traffic flow. The device may compare the one or more traffic attributes, included in the request, to the information associating the sets of traffic attributes with the respective sets of QoS parameters, identify a particular set of QoS parameters with which the traffic flow is associated, establish a communication session with a network based on the particular set of QoS parameters, communicate traffic, associated with the traffic flow, with the network via the established communication session. The device may include an application programming interface (“API”) via which an application associated with the traffic flow may specify the traffic attributes in the request.

公开(公告)号：US20250056381A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-13

申请号：US18448450

申请日：2023-08-11

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： David Taft ,  Jerry Steben ,  Lap Tse ,  Maqbool Chauhan ,  Samirkumar Patel

IPC: H04W48/08 ,  H04W8/18

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein enable network slice selection from different service providers using embedded Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs). A user equipment (UE) device stores a first eSIM associated with a first service provider of a first mobile network and a second eSIM associated with a second service provider of a second mobile network. The UE device also stores policy rules governing selection of the first eSIM and the second eSIM, wherein the policy rules limit use of second eSIM to a network slice on the second mobile network. The UE device initiates a session connection request associated with an application and directs the session connection request through one of the first eSIM or the second eSIM based on the policy rules.

公开(公告)号：US20250008423A1

公开(公告)日：2025-01-02

申请号：US18345190

申请日：2023-06-30

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Helen Osias Eglip ,  Sudhakar Reddy Patil ,  Samirkumar Patel ,  Suzann Hua

IPC: H04W48/18 ,  H04W8/18 ,  H04W60/04

Abstract: A system comprises one or more devices that implement a network function. The network function receives a connection request for a User Equipment (UE) device, the connection request including requested Network Slice Selection Assistance Information (NSSAI) for a mobile network. The network function retrieves subscribed NSSAI that includes NSSAI of slices from a subscription associated with the UE device. The network function determines expanded allowed NSSAI based on the subscribed NSSAI and NSSAI supported by the network. The network function sends, to the user device, the expanded allowed NSSAI.

公开(公告)号：US20240380725A1

公开(公告)日：2024-11-14

申请号：US18314483

申请日：2023-05-09

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Christopher M. Martin ,  Lily Zhu ,  Christopher Francis Mooney ,  Samirkumar Patel

IPC: H04L61/256

Abstract: A gateway wirelessly connected to a mobile network receives traffic for a user equipment device (UE) connected to the gateway. A router of the gateway identifies a network slice, from a set of network slices potentially supported by the mobile network, for the traffic, and applies network address translation (NAT) policy rules to select a NAT type from multiple different NAT types to perform for the traffic based on the identified network slice. The router of the gateway performs the selected NAT type for the traffic and forwards the traffic to a gateway modem for transmitting towards the traffic's destination.

公开(公告)号：US20240323817A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-26

申请号：US18186266

申请日：2023-03-20

Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Inventor： Samirkumar Patel ,  Andrew E. Youtz ,  Jeremy Nacer ,  Lily Zhu ,  Bharadwaj Vemuri

IPC: H04W48/16

CPC classification number: H04W48/16

Abstract: A device, such as a User Equipment (“UE”), may identify that the device is communicatively coupled to a wireless network via a particular network slice. The particular network slice may be associated with a particular set of Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters, Service Level Agreements (“SLAs”), or the like. The UE may determine the particular network slice based on a slice identifier provided by a network interface of the device, based on attributes of traffic sent or received via the wireless network, and/or based on attributes of a wireless connection between the device and the wireless network. The device may identify a slice indicator associated with the particular network slice, and may present the slice indicator via a user interface of the device. The presented slice indicator may notify a user of the device that the particular network slice is being used for traffic sent or received via the device.