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公开(公告)号:US10045359B1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-07
申请号:US15063758
申请日:2016-03-08
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Krishna Sitaram , Chunmei Liu , Hemanth B. Pawar , Pratik Kothari
Abstract: A method and system for dynamically controlling when a base station will provide a UE with carrier aggregation service rather than serving the UE on just a single carrier. The base station dynamically invokes carrier aggregation service for the UE in response to detecting simultaneous voice and data communication by the UE. And the base station dynamically discontinues providing carrier aggregation service for the UE, and transitions to serving the UE on just a single carrier, in response to detecting that the UE's simultaneous voice and data communication has ended and that the UE is engaged in just voice communication or just data communication.
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公开(公告)号:US10044474B1
公开(公告)日:2018-08-07
申请号:US15232675
申请日:2016-08-09
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Siddharth S. Oroskar , Jasinder P. Singh
Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods and systems for adjusting the maximum number of downlink retransmissions that are permissible for a user entity, according to whether or not coordinated multipoint service is being provided for the user entity.
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公开(公告)号:US10039034B1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-31
申请号:US15268145
申请日:2016-09-16
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Siddharth S. Oroskar , Jasinder P. Singh , Clark D. Halferty
CPC classification number: H04W36/0055 , H04W36/22
Abstract: A method and system to control WCD handover. A first base station will request load information from a second base station, and, based at least in part on a result of that request, the first base station will control handover of the WCD. The first base station may decline to hand over the WCD to the second base station in response to determining that the first base station did not responsively receive load information from the second base station. Further, the first base station may determine a level of confidence in load information of the second base station based on whether the first base station received load information of the second base station and based on whether the first and second base stations are provided by the same vendor, and the first base station may then use that level of confidence as a basis to control handover of the WCD.
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公开(公告)号:US10021693B1
公开(公告)日:2018-07-10
申请号:US15688259
申请日:2017-08-28
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Hemanth B. Pawar , Shilpa K. Srinivas , Krishna Sitaram
CPC classification number: H04W72/0453 , H04L1/0003 , H04L1/0009 , H04L5/0007 , H04L5/0021 , H04W52/0206 , H04W52/0235 , H04W52/146 , H04W52/245 , H04W52/262 , H04W52/365
Abstract: A base station will determine both that a served device's power headroom is threshold low and that the device's downlink receive signal strength is threshold low. In response to at least determining both that the device's power headroom is threshold low and that the device's downlink receive signal strength is threshold low, the base station will then begin applying an uplink coverage boosting process for the device, including limiting or reducing the number of frequency blocks that the base station allocates to the device for uplink transmission per transmission time interval, to help increase the device's per-frequency-block transmission power and thus the device's uplink communication quality. This could be usefully carried out with respect to voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) uplink coverage boosting (VUCB) for instance, to help improve voice communication quality.
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公开(公告)号:US09998908B1
公开(公告)日:2018-06-12
申请号:US15452884
申请日:2017-03-08
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Mark D. Peden , Rodney D. Nelson , Paul M. Andreas , John Eric Belser
Abstract: A method and system is disclosed for controlling communication behavior of application programs running on a user equipment device (UE) based on joint consideration of predicted roaming and predicted communication behavior of the application programs. A UE may monitor its operational state data during times when it is operating in a wireless network of a home service provider and during other times when it is roaming in a wireless network of a different service provider, and apply the monitored operational state data to a roaming prediction model configured for predicting future roaming state. The UE may also monitor communication behavior data of resident application programs, and apply the monitored communication behavior data to an application-communication prediction model configured for predicting future communication behavior of the applications. The UE may then control communication behavior of the application programs based on the roaming prediction model and the application-communication prediction model.
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公开(公告)号:US09967888B1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-08
申请号:US15073263
申请日:2016-03-17
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Luca Zappaterra , Yu Zhou , Muhammad A. Naim
CPC classification number: H04W4/70 , H04L5/00 , H04L43/16 , H04W72/1252 , H04W72/1289
Abstract: When a base station has just a small amount of data to transmit to a served UE, the base station will transmit the data to the UE in a DCI message on a PDCCH, rather than using the DCI message to allocate PDSCH resources to carry the data and transmitting the data on the allocated PDSCH resources. Further, the base station could advantageously make use of a standard DCI message format but could transmit the data in DCI message fields that would otherwise be used to allocate PDSCH resources or otherwise to facilitate PDSCH transmission, since those DCI message fields would not be needed when the data is transmitted in the DCI message itself.
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公开(公告)号:US09967306B1
公开(公告)日:2018-05-08
申请号:US15259812
申请日:2016-09-08
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Yu Zhou , Luca Zappaterra , Muhammad A. Naim
IPC: H04L29/06
CPC classification number: H04L65/607 , H04L65/4069 , H04L65/602
Abstract: A method for prioritized transmission of redundancy data in a voice-over-packet call. A sending device applies a variable rate codec to generate a sequence of encoded voice frames having varying sizes, and the sending device inserts the encoded voice frames into a sequence of fixed-size packets, one encoded voice frame per packet, resulting in varying left-over payload capacity per packet. The sending device further generates based on each encoded voice frame multiple redundancy blocks to help facilitate recovery of the encoded voice frame. And on a per packet-basis, the sending device selects, from a sliding-window set of recently generated redundancy blocks, one or more redundancy blocks to add into the left-over payload capacity of the packet, with the selecting of each redundancy block being based at least on importance of the voice frame based on which the redundancy block was generated, and the age and size of the redundancy block.
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公开(公告)号:US09955458B1
公开(公告)日:2018-04-24
申请号:US14558866
申请日:2014-12-03
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Yu Zhou , Muhammad Ahsan Naim
CPC classification number: H04W72/04 , H04L27/2601
Abstract: A one or more downlink resource elements of a downlink resource block in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) communication system can be shared by two wireless communication devices (WCDs) by assigning each WCD a different one of two orthogonal modulation axes. To transmit data to two WCDs using the same downlink resource block, a base station may receive a data stream including respective data for each of the WCDs, then modulate the data for one WCD on in-phase modulation axis and modulate that data for the other WCD on the quadrature axis. The two modulation modes can be simultaneously transmitted on a common sub-carrier of an OFDM downlink to both WCDs. Each WCD can demodulate the data on a pre-assigned demodulation axis to recover its intended data. This sharing technique can be applied to some or all of the downlink resource elements of a commonly allocated downlink resource block.
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公开(公告)号:US09955387B1
公开(公告)日:2018-04-24
申请号:US13896058
申请日:2013-05-16
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Maulik K. Shah , John W. Prock , Jasinder P. Singh , Siddharth S. Oroskar
IPC: H04W36/00
CPC classification number: H04W36/0055 , H04W36/26
Abstract: A method of managing modulation for transmission of data in anticipation of handover. When a source base station is serving a UE and determines that the UE is going to hand over to a target base station, the source base station automatically transitions to transmit data to the UE with a low-order MCS selected without regard to CQIs reported by the UE, or at least to apply an MCS corresponding with a CQI lower than that reported by the UE. By applying a low-order MCS to transmit data to the UE, the source base station may increase the likelihood that the data will arrive successfully at the UE, as the low-order MCS may be more tolerant to noise than higher-order MCSs.
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公开(公告)号:US09949192B1
公开(公告)日:2018-04-17
申请号:US15170080
申请日:2016-06-01
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Ahmad N. Saleh , Jasinder P. Singh , Deveshkumar N. Rai
CPC classification number: H04W36/00835 , H04W84/047
Abstract: Disclosed are methods and systems for selection of a handover target for a user equipment device (UE). In particular, a wireless communication system may serve the UE over an air interface connection between the UE and a source base station (BS). While the system serves the UE, the system may make a selection of a handover target for the UE. And in accordance with the disclosure, the selection may be based at least in part on the handover target not having a wireless relay backhaul connection. Once the system selects the handover target using the disclosed approach, the system may then trigger handover of the UE from being served by the source BS to being served by the selected handover target.
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