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公开(公告)号:US11700554B1
公开(公告)日:2023-07-11
申请号:US17661883
申请日:2022-05-03
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Hemanth B. Pawar , Krishna Sitaram , Shilpa K. Srinivas
CPC classification number: H04W36/0069 , H04W36/08 , H04W36/305
Abstract: A method and system for controlling air-interface connectivity of a user equipment device (UE). A computing system detects, when the UE has dual connectivity including a first air-interface connection with a first access node and a second air-interface connection with a second access node, and when the first air-interface connection is defined on a first carrier, that the UE is moving toward a geographic area where UEs that were served by the first access node on the first carrier as part of dual connectivity lost their dual connectivity due to their having insufficient aggregate dual-connectivity throughput. And based at least on the detecting, the computing system reconfigures the first air-interface connection of the UE's dual connectivity to be defined on a lower-frequency second carrier, to help avoid having the UE lose its dual connectivity.
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公开(公告)号:US11445519B1
公开(公告)日:2022-09-13
申请号:US15929158
申请日:2019-11-08
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Hemanth B. Pawar , Krishna Sitaram , Shilpa K. Srinivas
Abstract: A method and system for controlling wireless service of a user equipment device (UE) by an access node. The access node serves the UE with uplink carrier-aggregation over a connection encompassing multiple uplink channels including a primary uplink channel (uplink PCell) and a secondary uplink channel (uplink SCell). Further, the access node dynamically sets a channel-quality threshold applicable to control when to deconfigure the uplink SCell from service of the UE, with the dynamically setting of the channel-quality threshold including setting the channel-quality threshold to a value selected based on one or more operational circumstances of the UE, such as whether the UE is engaged in uplink heavy or rather uplink light communication. And the access node applies the dynamically set channel-quality threshold to control when to deconfigure the uplink SCell from service of the UE.
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公开(公告)号:US11343729B1
公开(公告)日:2022-05-24
申请号:US16885096
申请日:2020-05-27
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Hemanth B. Pawar , Krishna Sitaram , Shilpa K. Srinivas
Abstract: A method and system for controlling air-interface connectivity of a user equipment device (UE). A computing system detects, when the UE has dual connectivity including a first air-interface connection with a first access node and a second air-interface connection with a second access node, and when the first air-interface connection is defined on a first carrier, that the UE is moving toward a geographic area where UEs that were served by the first access node on the first carrier as part of dual connectivity lost their dual connectivity due to their having insufficient aggregate dual-connectivity throughput. And based at least on the detecting, the computing system reconfigures the first air-interface connection of the UE's dual connectivity to be defined on a lower-frequency second carrier, to help avoid having the UE lose its dual connectivity.
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公开(公告)号:US10681592B1
公开(公告)日:2020-06-09
申请号:US15807276
申请日:2017-11-08
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Hemanth B. Pawar , Krishna Sitaram , Shilpa K. Srinivas
Abstract: When a UE is served by a first radio access network (RAN) and is engaged in a voice call such as a VoIP call, a determination will be made that the UE is at an edge of coverage (e.g., threshold poor coverage) of the first RAN and that there is no other adjacent coverage of the first RAN that could support the voice call. In response, signaling will cause a second RAN to page the UE via the first RAN so as to cause the UE to transition from being served by the first RAN to being served by the second RAN. More generally, when a UE has poor coverage of its serving RAN, another RAN will pull the UE to the second RAN by paging the UE to trigger transition of the UE from to the second RAN.
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公开(公告)号:US10320519B1
公开(公告)日:2019-06-11
申请号:US15413050
申请日:2017-01-23
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Pratik Kothari , Chunmei Liu , Hemanth B. Pawar , Krishna Sitaram
Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling service by a base station when the base station is serving both a first UE without carrier aggregation and a plurality of second UEs with carrier aggregation. As a basis for invoking carrier aggregation service for the first UE, the base station selects one of the second UEs to transition from being served by the base station with carrier aggregation to being served by the base station without carrier aggregation. The base station makes such a selection based at least in part on a modulation and coding scheme that the base station uses to serve the selected one of the second UEs. The base station transitions from serving the selected second UE with carrier aggregation to serving the selected second UE without carrier aggregation. And the base station transitions from serving the first UE without carrier aggregation to serving the first UE with carrier aggregation.
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公开(公告)号:US10271340B1
公开(公告)日:2019-04-23
申请号:US15646992
申请日:2017-07-11
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Hemanth B. Pawar , Krishna Sitaram , Shilpa K. Srinivas
Abstract: Methods and systems to help manage wireless communication with UEs in a manner that takes into account an extent of TTI bundling on a given carrier frequency. When a base station is serving a threshold high number of TTI-bundling-UEs on a first carrier frequency, the base station will reduce the number of TTI-bundling-UEs on the first carrier frequency by offloading one or more of the TTI-bundling-UEs from the first carrier frequency to a second carrier frequency. Further, to avoid increasing the number of TTI-bundling-UEs served on the first carrier frequency, when the base station detects a trigger event for enabling TTI bundling for an additional UE served on the first carrier frequency, the base station will offload the additional UE from the first carrier frequency to the second carrier frequency.
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公开(公告)号:US10070340B1
公开(公告)日:2018-09-04
申请号:US15271736
申请日:2016-09-21
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Hemanth B. Pawar , Shilpa K. Srinivas , Krishna Sitaram , Chunmei Liu
Abstract: Example methods and an example controller for controlling a bit rate at which a media server streams media content to a UE are provided. The example controller includes at least one processing unit and data storage having instructions executable by the processing unit to carry out operations. The operations include determining an extent to which the UE provides wireless backhaul connectivity between its serving base station and at least one device other than the UE. Further, the operations include, based on the determined extent, (i) establishing the bit rate and (ii) causing the media server to stream a portion of media content to the UE at the established bit rate.
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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: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:US09820289B1
公开(公告)日:2017-11-14
申请号:US14575455
申请日:2014-12-18
Applicant: Sprint Spectrum L.P.
Inventor: Hemanth B. Pawar , Shilpa Kowdley Srinivas , Krishna Sitaram , Chunmei Liu
CPC classification number: H04W72/085 , H04L5/001 , H04L5/14 , H04L5/1469
Abstract: A method and system for managing quantity of carriers to aggregate together in carrier aggregation service, based at least in part on consideration of the type of content that will be communicated to or from the user equipment device (UE) at issue. A base station serving the UE may determine a type of content that will be communicated between the base station and the UE and, based at least on the determined type of content, may decide whether to apply carrier aggregation and, when the decision is to apply carrier aggregation, determine, based at least on the determined type of content, how many component carriers to aggregate together in the carrier aggregation service of the UE. The base station may then modify an air interface connection with the UE to encompass the determined number of component carriers.
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