Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Ati Technologies Inc.

Verizon Corporate Resources Group, LLC

Andrew E Youtz

Lily H Zhu

Xin Wang

Hui Zhao

Jignesh Shantilal Panchal

Balaji L Raghavachari

Samirkumar Patel

Christopher M Schmidt

Deepa Jagannatha

Paul R Mcdonough

Jun Yuan

Iftekhar Rahman

Kyriaki Konstantinou

Sudhakar Reddy Patil

Raafat Edward Kamel

Xuming Chen

Pingping Zong

Timothy M Dwight

Shen-De Lin

Siegfried Erhard Eichinger

Sagiv Draznin

Kalyani Bogineni

Ratul Kumar Guha

Imtiyaz Shaikh

James Mathison

Zhengfang Chen

Susan Wu Sanders

Niranjan B Avula

Praveen Venkataramu

Siva Sandeep Dhandu

Michael A Lombardo

Paul Venizelos

Joseph Peter Kuhn, Iii

Christopher M Mullen

Michael Haberman

Tajas Bhavsar

Esneyder Ospina

Arda Aksu

Yuk Lun Li

Warren Hojilla Uy

Yuexin Dong

Taussif Khan

Ho Yin Cheuk

Jeremy Nacer

Zheng Zhao

Bjorn Hjelm

Muhammad Salman Nomani

Musa Kazim Guven

Bharadwaj Vemuri

Axel Hallo De Wolf

Ye Huang

Manuel Enrique Caceres

Samir N Hulyalkar

Miguel Angel Carames

Mauricio Pati Caldeira De Andrada

Barry F Hoffner

Azzedine Touzni

Ashfaq Kamal

Nanjun Qian

Raul Alejandro Casas

Sanyogita Shamsunder

Stephane Chaysinh

Michael R Waters

Sudhir Patel

Mary Williams

Brigitte Bastaldo-Tsampalis

Samuel Reichgott

Lin Song

Monte Giles

Asif Nooruddin Batada

Byunghun Choi

Xin He

Sameer Muhammad Farooqi

Jiang Lan

Jeff Evans

Maxine C Dawson-Haney

John J Zygmaniak

Gregory S Blazi

Erdogan Topcu

A device may include a processor configured to send a plurality of attach requests to a base station using a radio access technology (RAT) and determine that each of the plurality of attach requests has failed. The processor may be further configured to override a triggering of a backoff timer, wherein the UE device is barred from attaching using the RAT if the backoff timer is triggered and running, in response to determining that each of the plurality of attach requests has failed, and send another attach request to the base station using the RAT during a time period associated with the backoff timer.

Systems and methods for handling non-access stratum layer failures

A user equipment (UE) can receive a first data stream and a second data stream; store data units of the second data stream, as stored data units, in a buffer while a retransmission operation is performed for the first data stream; determine that a threshold is satisfied with regard to the buffer, wherein the threshold is associated with a counter that is maintained based on the storing of the data units; and provide the stored data units based on determining that the threshold is satisfied.

Out-of-order packet handling in 5G/New Radio

A device described herein may receive an indication that the device is not authorized to access a first type of core network (e.g., a Fifth Generation ('5G') Core (“5GC”)), and may detect that a first core network, of the first type of core network, is available for communication. The device may detect that a second core network, of a second type of core network (e.g., an Evolved Packet Core (“EPC”)), is available for communication. Based on the indication that the device is not authorized to access the first type of core network, the device may request establishment of a communication session with the second core network (e.g., in lieu of requesting access the first core network).

Systems and methods for 5G core network access control

A network device, of a fifth generation (5G) radio access network, may establish a connection or a session with a user equipment connected to a Wi-Fi network. The network device may determine an indicator indicating whether a 5G network preference is in effect based on a subscription of the user equipment and may provide the indicator to the user equipment. The network device may maintain the connection or the session with the user equipment when the indicator indicates that the Wi-Fi network is not preferred for Wi-Fi offload and may receive traffic from the user equipment when the indicator indicates that the Wi-Fi network is not preferred for Wi-Fi offload.

Systems and methods for instructing a user equipment to utilize a fifth generation (5G) network instead of a wireless network

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which beam configuration management service is provided. A network device of a wireless access network provides the service that includes identifying redundant configurations across carriers associated with a cell group, and links the common beam configurations to these carriers. The service also includes identifying any difference in beam configurations relative to the common beam configurations for a carrier. The service may transmit this beam configuration information in a control plane message to an end device. The end device may use the beam configuration information.

Beam configuration management service

A user equipment (UE) device may include a processor configured to establish an application session with a multi-access edge computing (MEC) device via a base station. The processor may be further configured to receive a message associated with the application session; retrieve, from the received message, an indication that a MEC indicator on a user interface of the UE device should be activated, wherein the MEC indicator indicates that a MEC application session is active on the UE device; and activate the MEC indicator on the user interface of the UE device, in response to retrieving the indication.

Systems and methods for indicating the presence of a multi-access edge computing application

A system described herein may provide a technique for ensuring that a User Equipment ('UE') is provided an opportunity to scan for available cells in a wireless network in a manner that allows the UE to detect cells according to a particular radio frequency (“RF”) band. When receiving a measurement report from the UE that does not include cells implementing the particular RF band, a timer may be initiated during which subsequent measurement reports may be received from the UE. If a subsequent measurement from the UE includes a cell corresponding to the particular RF band, the UE may be instructed to connect to such a cell. Otherwise, the UE may be instructed to connect to another cell that does not implement the particular RF band.

Systems and methods for network-implemented cell selection in a wireless network based on UE measurement reports

Systems and methods provide reliable voice connections dual-connectivity environments, given limitations of available spectrum. A system includes a first wireless station and a second wireless station. The first wireless station provides a shared spectrum of a first frequency band, the shared spectrum including a first spectrum for a first cellular wireless standard and a second spectrum for a second cellular wireless standard. The second wireless station is at least partially within a coverage area of the first wireless station and provides a third spectrum for the second cellular wireless standard. The third spectrum is a millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The first wireless station broadcasts a parameter barring an end device in an idle mode from camping on the second spectrum. The first wireless station or the second wireless station triggers the end device to swap to the second spectrum when a paging request for a voice call is received.

Method and system for supporting voice calls in 5G new radio environments

A network device receives, from a user equipment (UE), a Next Generation Mobile network attach request, wherein the Next Generation Mobile network attach request includes a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) network attach request. The network device initiates attachment procedures, in response to receipt of the Next Generation Mobile network attach request and the VoLTE network attach request, to attach the UP to the Next Generation Mobile network and to a VoLTE network, and initiates establishment of a connection between the Next Generation Mobile network and the UE.

Next generation to VoLTE fallback for voice calls

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.

Cell selection management for end device in femtocell coverage area

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.

Method and system for anchor cell reselection with multi-RAT dual-connectivity

A user device may receive information indicating that a universal integrated circuit card has been installed in the user device, where the universal integrated circuit card may store a default table that includes network slice selection assistance information used to route data from the user device to correct slices of a network. The user device may execute an application stored in the user device based on receiving a selection of the application, where execution of the application may cause data to be generated. The user device may identify a slice of the network to which to route the data based on the network slice selection assistance information included in the default table. The user device may cause the data to be routed to the slice of the network identified based on the network slice selection assistance information included in the default table.

Systems and methods for providing network slice selection assistance and route selection policy configurations in a universal integrated circuit card

Systems and methods described herein improve a customer experience for non-standalone cellular networks by displaying a secondary cell group (SCG) network icon after data activity ends while a user device likely remains in SCG coverage. When connected to the SCG, the user device detects inactivity on the connection and initiates a first timer, based on the detecting, while continuing to present an SCG-related icon. If the first timer expires while the user device is in an idle state, the user device initiates a second timer, while continuing to present the SCG-related icon. If the user device detects an active connection before expiration of the second timer, the user device initiates a third timer while continuing to present the SCG-related icon. If the user device fails to detect a connection to the SCG before expiration of the third timer, a master cell group (MCG)-related icon is displayed.

System and method for indicating coverage types for user devices in dual connectivity wireless networks

In some implementations, a network device may monitor a communication session associated with a user equipment and a network. The network device may determine a service-level identifier associated with a subscription of the user equipment, wherein the subscription is for a particular level of service that is to be provided by the network to the user equipment. The network device may determine that a performance metric associated with the communication session satisfies a performance threshold associated with the particular level of service. The network device may provide the service-level identifier to the user equipment based on the performance metric satisfying the performance threshold, wherein the service-level identifier enables an indication that the user equipment is receiving the particular level of service to be displayed by the user equipment.

Systems and methods for obtaining and indicating subscription information for a wireless communication service

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