Software-enabled remote licensing and provisioning

    公开(公告)号:US11977610B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-07

    申请号:US17009602

    申请日:2020-09-01

    Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for providing software provisioning of functionality in a wireless communications device. Software-enabling functionality may include systems for granting a license to intellectual property or other pre-embedded functionality within a device. Communications to and from the device may be used to send or receive activation messages and/or licensing messages. Network capabilities may be provisioned using activation messages sent over the network. Activation messages may be sent in-band or out-of-band, for a device connected to the Internet and/or a mobile operator core network. Licenses may be required for any functions or intellectual property present on a given device. Activation may enable logical modules of a system-on-chip (SOC), functions of a software-defined radio (SDR), baseband, or DSP core. The disclosed systems and methods could thereby provide a new, flexible paradigm, namely, “Silicon as a Service (SaaS).”

    OpenRAN solution suite
    63.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11910303B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-02-20

    申请号:US17203740

    申请日:2021-03-16

    CPC classification number: H04W48/18 H04W24/02 H04W48/16 H04W84/042 H04W88/06

    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing an OpenRAN solution suite. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed, the method including communicating, by an all G COTS (Commercial off the Shelf) Base Band Unit (BBU), with a plurality of different G user devices; communicating, by a software platform, with the all G COTS BBU, wherein the software platform includes virtualized software providing open RAN controller functionality, network orchestrator functionality, and SON edge core functionality; and communicating, by the software platform, with a plurality of different G core networks.

    5G Interoperability Architecture
    65.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230328845A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-12

    申请号:US18334307

    申请日:2023-06-13

    CPC classification number: H04W88/16 H04W92/02

    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a 5G interoperability architecture. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed, comprising: at least one Radio Access network (RAN); at least one core network; and a gateway in communication with the RAN and the core network, the gateway including: a Radio Access Network (RAN) interface for communicating with the at least one RAN; a core network interface for communicating with the at least one core network; and a processor configured to: process 5G signaling received from the at least one RAN on the RAN interface and provide core signaling to at least one core network; and process signaling received from the at least one core on the core network interface and provide 5G RAN signaling to at least one RAN.

    Congestion and overload reduction
    66.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11743763B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-29

    申请号:US17131710

    申请日:2020-12-22

    CPC classification number: H04W28/0289 H04W28/0247 H04W76/16 H04W76/18

    Abstract: A gateway server situated between a radio access network and a core network is disclosed that includes a radio access network packet interface, a load management module for monitoring load of a management server in the core network coupled to the radio access network packet interface, a packet forwarding module for forwarding requests to the management server coupled to the load management module, and a local packet core module coupled to the load management module and the packet forwarding module, the local packet core module being configured to respond to a mobile device, when an overload is detected at the management server, with a management server message requesting that the mobile device try again at a later time.

    Radio Access Network Dynamic Functional Splits

    公开(公告)号:US20230049843A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-16

    申请号:US17977528

    申请日:2022-10-31

    Abstract: Systems and methods for Radio Access Network dynamic functional splits are de-scribed. In one embodiment, a method may be disclosed for Radio Access Network dynamic func-tional splits, comprising: determining, by a user for a RAN, a first split of different functionalities between a central Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU), the functionalities including a Radio Resource Controller (RRC), a Packet Data Convergence Protocol (PDCP), a Radio Link Control (RLC); a Medium Access control (MAC), a Physical Layer (PHY), and a Radio Frequency Unit (RF); and wherein the system is able to provide different splits of the functionalities based on fac-tors such as user count, fronthaul capacity, fronthaul usage, required baseband processing capacity, and latency.

    Elastic Scheduling
    68.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230007677A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-05

    申请号:US17898313

    申请日:2022-08-29

    Abstract: A method for scheduling resources in a network where the scheduling activity is split across two nodes in the network is disclosed, comprising: receiving, from a local scheduler in a first radio access network, access network information at a global scheduler; accessing information regarding a second radio access network allocating, at the global scheduler, resources for secondary allocation by the local scheduler; applying a hash function to map the allocated resources for secondary allocation to a set of hash values; and sending, from the global scheduler, the set of hash values to the local scheduler.

    Base Station Power Management Using Solar Panel and Battery Forecasting

    公开(公告)号:US20220312343A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-09-29

    申请号:US17839959

    申请日:2022-06-14

    Abstract: A system is disclosed, comprising: a solar panel; an electric power supply source; a wireless fronthaul access point coupled to a radio mast and in communication with a remote baseband unit, the wireless fronthaul access point further comprising a first millimeter wave wireless interface; a self-organizing network module in communication with a coordinating server; and an antenna-integrated radio for providing access to user equipments (UEs), mounted within line of sight on the radio mast with the wireless fronthaul access point, the antenna-integrated radio further comprising: a second millimeter wave wireless interface configured to receive the digital I and Q signaling information from the remote baseband unit wirelessly via the wireless fronthaul access point, wherein the wireless fronthaul access point thereby wirelessly couples the remote baseband unit and the antenna-integrated radio. Synchronization is used to pack used resource blocks to reduce the duty cycle of the PAs, thereby reducing power.

    5G native architecture
    70.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11356859B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16788304

    申请日:2020-02-11

    Abstract: Systems, methods and computer software are disclosed for providing a 5G native architecture. In one embodiment a method includes providing an all G software platform, including a core virtualization stack capable of communication with all hauls, and a radio virtualization stack capable of communication with all cores; and wherein the core virtualization stack communicates with an analytics layer, the analytics layer communicates with an orchestration layer, the orchestration layer communicates with a consolidation layer, and the consolidation layer communicates with the radio virtualization stack such that any G core is able to communicate with any G radio access network.

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