Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Fred Weisbrod

Donna L Polehn

Corey J Christopherson

Patricia Ruey Chang

Joshua J Crans

Amitav Mukherjee

Anil Krishna Guntupalli

Kirk Campbell

John Patrick Hickey, Iii

James Byron Jones

Manuel Bedoya

Paul James Purcell

David George Lincoln, Jr

Ronald J Lawrence

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a cellular device-satellite communications service is provided. The service may provide establishment, maintenance, and termination of uplink and downlink connections via a satellite network, a terrestrial network, and both based on network information and satellite information. The service may also provide scheduling for user plane traffic via the uplink and downlink connections.

Method and system for cellular device-satellite communications

Systems and methods provide decentralized MEC compute services. A network device receives, from a user device associated with a user account, an access request for Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) services. The user account includes a MEC service token that indicates parameters for the MEC services. The network device validates a user of the user device to access MEC services for the user device; removes, after the validating, the MEC service token from the first user account; and grants, based on the removing, access to a MEC cluster by the user device, wherein granting access includes granting access according to the parameters.

System and method for allocating multi-access edge computing services

A device may receive capacity information associated with a plurality of base stations, and may receive user equipment demands associated with the plurality of base stations. The device may receive, from a satellite, a satellite backhaul demand associated with the satellite, and may calculate excess backhaul capacities associated with the plurality of base stations, based on the user equipment demands and the capacity information. The device may identify a base station, of the plurality of base stations, to provide a satellite backhaul path for the satellite, based on the excess backhaul capacities and the satellite backhaul demand, and may provide, to the base station, a message instructing the base station to activate a satellite antenna associated with the base station. The device may provide, to the satellite, data identifying the base station, and may establish the satellite backhaul path for the satellite, via the base station.

Systems and methods for providing satellite backhaul management over terrestrial fiber

A method may include obtaining connection-related data associated with user equipment (UE) devices operating in a network, wherein the UE devices include unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and devices other than UAVs. The method may include storing the connection-related data; identifying, in the stored connection-related data, data associated with known UAVs and filtering the stored connection-related data based on a distance associated with a known UAV. The method may further include training a machine learning classifier using the filtered data and executing the machine learning classifier to identity UAVs operating in the network.

Systems and methods for unmanned aerial vehicle detection

A system described herein may provide a technique for the dynamic selection of configurable resources in an environment that includes a hierarchical or otherwise differentiated arrangement of configurable resources. The environment may include, or may be implemented by, a Distributed Resource Network ('DRN'), which may include hardware or virtual resources that may be configured, including the instantiation of containers, virtual machines, Virtualized Network Functions ('VNFs'), or the like. The DRN may be hierarchical in that some resources of the DRN may provide services to, and/or may otherwise be accessible to, a greater quantity of elements of the DRN or some other network.

Systems and methods for dynamically allocating resources based on configurable resource priority

A user equipment (UE) device may determine its location with a high degree of precision, beyond the capability of other current methodologies. Specifically, a UE device may obtain High Precision (HIP) coordinates of its location based on Random Access Channel (RACH) messages that the UE device exchanges with multiple wireless stations. Using RACH messages to obtain HIP coordinates imposes little communication overhead or computational burden on the UE device and the network.

Determining device locations based on random access channel signaling

A device may receive a wireless communication that is provided to a wireless network by a user equipment. The device may identify a value of a parameter of the wireless communication. The device may obtain an expected value of the parameter. The device may compare the value and the expected value. The device may determine, based on comparing the value and the expected value, that the wireless communication was relayed by a wireless communication repeater. The device may determine that the wireless communication repeater is unauthorized to relay the wireless communication. The device may perform an action associated with the wireless communication repeater relaying the wireless communication and based on the wireless communication repeater being unauthorized to relay the wireless communication.

Systems and methods for detecting a wireless communication repeater

A user equipment (UE) device may include a memory and one or more processors. The one or more processors operate to determine one or more of a signal strength or signal quality for each of a plurality of networks available for connection via the communication interface and the antenna assembly. Virtual user equipment (VUE) for two or more of the identified plurality of networks are allocated and the UE device connects to the two or more networks using the respective VUEs.

Virtualized equipment for multi-network and cross cell utilization

A system described herein may provide a technique for the modeling of channel condition information, associated with a base station of a radio access network ('RAN') associated with a wireless network, over time. The model may be used to determine, estimate, or predict channel information associated with the base station at a given time, such as a time corresponding to a request for content (e.g., streaming content). The channel condition information corresponding to this time, as determined based on the model, may be used to select a particular version of the content to provide in response to the request. By virtue of receiving this information, the content provider may forgo performing a speed test, a ramp up transmission scheme, and/or other technique that may otherwise used to select the version of the content to provide in response to the request.

Systems and methods for content selection and delivery based on radio access network ('RAN') conditions

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a traffic control service is provided. The traffic control service may include using user plane congestion information pertaining to a radio access network and a multi-access edge computing system to manage congestion or anticipated congestion.

Method and system for RAN-aware multi-access edge computing traffic control

A device can determine a set of parameters associated with generating a route plan for routing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The set of parameters can include a parameter that identifies a radio frequency (RF) condition to be satisfied by the route plan. The device can determine a route, associated with the 3D environment, based on the parameter that identifies the RF condition and using an RF model. The RF model can be associated with predicting RF conditions in the 3D environment. The device can generate the route plan including information associated with the route. The device can provide information associated with the route plan.

Routing unmanned aerial vehicles based on radio frequency conditions in a three-dimensional environment

A system includes a base station. The base station includes: a laser assembly that transmits an optical control beam to a phased array antenna external to and remote from the base station; and a radio frequency (RF) transceiver that transmits a radio signal to the phased array antenna. The phased array antenna deflects the radio signal arriving at the phased array antenna in a particular direction indicated by the optical control beam. The particular direction of the deflected radio signal is toward a particular user device.

Optically controlled meta-material phased array antenna system

An RF antenna system includes a first unit that further includes first attachment means that secures the first unit to a window, and an antenna. The first unit additionally includes an RF transceiver, coupled to the antenna, that receives, via the antenna, incoming RF signals and converts the RF signals to first electrical signals; and first optical means that transmits the first electrical signals as first optical signals through the first surface of the window. The RF antenna system also includes a second unit that includes second attachment means that secures the second unit to the window. The second unit also includes second optical means that receive the first optical signals through the second surface of the window, convert the first optical signals to first digital signals, and transmit the first digital signals to a device connected to the second unit.

Window-mounted antenna unit

A device may receive information indicating one or more parameters associated with one or more antenna arrays in a radio access network. The device may receive a flight request that indicates one or more conditions for a flight path of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) seeking network access to the radio access network. The device may determine waypoints for the flight path based on analyzing the one or more parameters associated with the one or more antenna arrays and the one or more conditions for the flight path of the UAV. The device may transmit information identifying the waypoints for the flight path. The device may send control information to cause the one or more antenna arrays to form a corresponding one or more beams along the flight path to enable the UAV to traverse the flight path with the network access to the radio access network.

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