Long-term evolution assisted new radio initial access and mobility for 5G or other next generation networks
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219619
Long-term evolution assisted new radio initial access and mobility for 5G or other next generation networks are provided herein. A method can include transmitting, by a first network device of a wireless network and comprising a processor, a first timing synchronization signal and first acquisition information of the first network device to a mobile device. In response to the transmitting and based on a transmission received from the mobile device, a connection between the mobile device…
System and method of securing allocation of network functions for session slices
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219473
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device including a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of receiving a query for 5G Session Management Functions (SMFs) to handle a connection request, wherein the query includes a slice ID and data network name; determining a list of SMFs that each have a blockchain ID immutably recorded on a…
Smart cascading security functions for 6G or other next generation network
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219449
In a 6G network, microservices can be utilized in the absence of a core network. For example, after a mobile device has authenticated, through its carrier network, with a transport service layer, microservices can be allocated to the mobile device without having to be transmitted via the core network. Thus, removing the core network from the process can generate a direct line of microservices from the transport layer to the end-user. Furthermore, additional microservices and/or resources…
Identifying aerial cells of a network based on direction of arrival (DOA)
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219409
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, deploying UAVs to a geographic area based on a need to offload traffic from a terrestrial base station, instructing the base station to enforce a UE served by the base station to determine a DoA of a received pilot signal emitted from each neighboring cell and to provide determined DoAs in a measurement report to the base station, obtaining the report from the base station, wherein the report includes DoA information for a…
Management of bandwidth part switching
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219392
Switching a device between bandwidth parts of a channel bandwidth can be managed. A bandwidth part (BWP) management component (BWPMC) can determine characteristics relating to communication rate, quality of service (QoS), or device power based on analysis of data relating to operation of the device, including data relating to service type of a service used by the device or traffic type of data communicated by the device. If heavy traffic is detected, BWPMC can determine whether switching…
Assessing the impacts of cellular network changes
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219377
A method includes selecting a study group including a first network element and a second network element of a network, selecting a control group including a third network element, identifying times at which a change is deployed at the first network element and the second network element, time-aligning the change at the first element and the change at the second network element to a common time, performing a statistical analysis that compares the performance of the network before the…
Cloud deployment of network function software with a management
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12219025
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a management manifest for a network function (NF) software application, wherein the NF software application is to be deployed in a cloud computing environment, based on the generating the management manifest, deriving a software package that includes the NF software application and the management manifest, and causing the software package to be outputted for deployment in the cloud computing environment, wherein…
Facilitation of incremental feedback for 5G or other next generation network
Granted: February 4, 2025
Patent Number:
12218718
Channel state information (CSI) can be transmitted to a network node incrementally to increase network efficiency. The CSI feedback framework can be enhanced by allowing a user equipment (UE) to report multiple sets of CSI feedback, where each set can comprise a rank indicator (RI), a pre-coder matrix indicator (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI). Since a different set may have a different sub-band, the CSI feedback framework can support the sub-band rank, wherein rank data from…
Autonomous vehicle pairing management
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213040
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to autonomous vehicle pairing management. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a fleet pairing management application executed by a processor of an autonomous vehicle can initiate a fleet pairing process with a plurality of other autonomous vehicles, each of which can execute one of a plurality of other fleet pairing management applications. The fleet pairing management application can send, over a network, an initiate network…
Split input and output (IO) for subscriber identity module (SIM) swaps
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213211
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, from a computing device, a user request to perform a subscriber identity module (SIM) swap for a subscriber, wherein the computing device and a user device are accessible to a user, based on the receiving the user request, generating a code for the SIM swap, resulting in a generated code, providing the generated code to the computing device for presentation, obtaining, from the user device, data associated with the…
Intelligent security via accurate mobile device location sensing
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213034
Described is intelligent security based on the detection of the presence of mobile devices within a defined region, determined via accurate mobile device location sensing, e.g., within on the order of one meter. Upon detection of the presence of a mobile device within a defined region via mobile device millimeter wave-based position sensing, an identity associated with the mobile device is obtained. If the identity associated with the mobile device is not a trusted identity, action can…
Dynamic quality of service setting system
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12213000
A quality of service system comprising at least one quality of service controller, the quality of service controller receiving a request for a change in service priority from a default priority to an altered priority; analyzing the request to determine if the requested change in service priority can be granted, when the request for a change in service priority can be granted, preparing an altered flow rule including a tag identifying the altered priority; and pushing the altered flow…
Dynamic cross-frequency path configuration for wavelength division multiplexing networks
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212903
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying network elements of a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) domain of an optical waveguide communication system that includes a group of optical-add-drop multiplexor (OADM) devices. Operations are observed for the WDM domain configured to deliver communication services configured for simultaneously transporting independent signals across a network of single optical waveguides. A demand for optical waveguide…
Situation aware QoS automation system and method leveraging user device real time updating
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212489
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining, by a processing system including a processor, network data associated with a communication network; generating, by the processing system, Quality of Service (QoS) information by applying machine learning to the network data; and providing, by the processing system, the QoS information to a Policy Control Function (PCF) that selects or generates a first UE Route Selection Policy (URSP) rule according to the QoS…
Estimation of network latency based on aggregated performance data
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12212479
Estimation of network latency based on aggregated performance data is disclosed. End-to-end latency between endpoints can comprise protocol-induced latency, access network-induced, core-network latency, and network-distance-based latency. Network latency, e.g., network-distance-based latency, also referred to as topological latency, can correspond to communication path length between endpoints. Crowdsourcing of communication path performance information can enable estimation of…
Intelligent interceptor for SaaS cloud migration and integration
Granted: January 28, 2025
Patent Number:
12210859
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations, the operations comprising: receiving by a selected one of a plurality of containers incoming traffic from a legacy application, the legacy application having been associated with a migrated application prior to the migrated application having been…
Automated generation of network data visualization dashboards
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12204733
The described technology is generally directed towards automated generation of network data visualization dashboards. Automation can be achieved through the use of templates and data files. Templates can be combined with any of multiple different data files to produce network data visualization dashboard files. Different combinations of templates and different data files can result in different network data visualization dashboard files. The network data visualization dashboard files can…
Using dynamic thresholds for non-mobility handovers in a fifth generation (5G) or other next generation network
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12207146
The technologies described herein are generally directed to modeling radio wave propagation in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, for a network application, identifying, by a system comprising a processor, a first performance characteristic of first base station equipment, wherein the first base station equipment is actively communicating with a user equipment via a first network connection. The method…
Mechanisms and apparatus for securing broadcast content distribution of time-sensitive data
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12206777
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, authenticating a user device based on communication over a data plane of a network, generating a decryption key, transmitting the decryption key to the user device, and transmitting encrypted content to the user device. The encrypted content may be accessible at the user device via the encryption key, potentially as a function of location and/or time. Other embodiments are disclosed.
Post-quantum-resistant cryptographic system and methods
Granted: January 21, 2025
Patent Number:
12206702
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that has a processing system including a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations of performing a packet analysis of protocol data unit (PDU) headers of inbound Internet and non-Internet traffic; determining whether the PDU headers identify the presence of a quantum payload and/or via deep packet inspection; detecting a…
