Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Lee K Tjio

Lalit R Kotecha

Sergio Aguirre

William Howard Stone, Jr

Jin Yang

Shankar Venkatraman

Jay J Lee

Raafat Edward Kamel

Kamlesh S Kamdar

Vikram K Rawat

Aref Iskandar

Sagiv Draznin

David Chiang

Raymond So

Parvez Ahmad

Deepak Kakadia

Yee Sin Chan

Matthew W Nelson

Arvind Basra

Derek Hongwei Bao

Patricia Ruey-Jane Chang

Kent William Hughes

Vijay T Madhav

Derek Hongwei H Bao

Stanley A Zadrozny

Reza Okhravi

Brett I Rogers

David M Alward

A computer device may include a memory configured to store instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to select a base station; obtain one or more metric values for user equipment (UE) devices attached to the selected base station; and determine usage categories for at least some of the UE devices attached to the selected base station, wherein a usage category identifies a combination of a data type, a movement type, and a user type associated with a particular UE device. The processor may be further configured to execute the instructions to classify the obtained one or more metric values based on the determined usage categories; select one or more optimization actions for the selected base station based on the classified one or more metric values; and instruct the selected base station to perform the selected one or more optimization actions.

System and method for a usage category specific self-organizing network

Techniques described herein may allow for the selective enabling and/or disabling of shared access points ('SAPs'). The selective enabling and/or disabling may occur based on the analysis of key performance indicators ('KPIs') associated with the SAPs. The selective enabling and/or disabling may cause the SAPs to cease (or continue) broadcasting their availability for User Equipment (&#x201c;UEs&#x201d;) of a particular wireless provider, decline (or accept) bearer requests for UEs of the particular wireless provider, or terminate existing connections with UEs of the particular wireless provider. The selective enabling and/or disabling may be performed for certain applications or Quality of Service (&#x201c;QoS&#x201d;) levels. The selective enabling and/or disabling may be performed proactively (e.g., without necessarily determining that the performance for a given SAP has not met a threshold performance), based on historical trends.

Systems and methods for real-time and selective enablement of shared access cells

A system may be configured to determine radio frequency ('RF') transmission error types associated with a group of channels. Each channel may be associated with a particular remote radio node ('RRN'), of a group of RRNs, and a user device. The system may further modify subsequent RF communications between the RRNs and the user device, on a per-channel basis, and based on the determined transmission error types associated with each channel.

Centralized channel coding and shaping for a multi-node RAN

A base station may establish a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a first user device. The base station may determine a bearer attribute of a bearer associated with the RRC connection and the first user device. The base station may determine that the bearer attribute satisfies a set of conditions, and may analyze multiple bearer attributes associated with multiple established RRC connections. The base station may select a terminable RRC connection, of the multiple established RRC connections, based on analyzing the multiple bearer attributes. The terminable RRC connection may be associated with a second user device that is different from the first user device, and the terminable RRC connection may be different from the RRC connection. The device may terminate the terminable RRC connection based on selecting the terminable RRC connection.

Managing radio resource control (RRC) connections based on radio bearer attributes

A device may determine to initiate a location determination for a base station. The device may identify a set of positioning measurements associated with the location determination. The device may identify a set of other devices to be associated with the set of positioning measurements. The device may provide configuration information for the set of positioning measurements to the set of other devices. The device may determine information associated with the set of positioning measurements based on providing the configuration information. The device may determine a location in which the base station is located based on determining the information associated with the set of positioning measurements.

Base station location determination

A device may receive a request for an electronic program guide from a user device and determine a location of the user device. The device may determine, based on the determining that the user device is located in a first location, a group of different types of networks available to the user device and may provide, based on the determined group of different types of networks available to the user device, the electronic program guide for display. The electronic program guide may include a network identifier for each of one or more available channels associated with each of the determined group of different types of networks, and a content identifier associated with a respective one of the one or more available channels associated with each of the determined group of different types of networks.

Unified electronic program guide

A first device may establish a connection with a user device via a particular bearer associated with multiple policies for corresponding data flows. The first device may also receive a first data packet associated with a first data flow; apply, to the first data flow, a first policy of the multiple policies; transmit the first data packet to the user device via the particular bearer; receive a second data packet associated with a second data flow; apply, to the second data flow, a second policy of the one or more policies; and transmit the second data packet to the user device via the particular bearer.

Single bearer network connection establishment

A device receives, from a network device, information associated with an event, and assigns an event identifier to the event based on the event information. The device also provides the event identifier to a cell control device located at a location associated with the event, and determines a cell capacity of the location to ensure that there is sufficient cell capacity at the location to broadcast the event. The network device instructs a device capturing the event to provide live event data to the cell control device for a predetermined time period.

Broadcast video provisioning system

A device receives session information and subscription information, for a service request, from an originating evolved packet system (EPS) network, and forwards the session information and the subscription information to a destination policy control and charging rules function (PCRF) device associated with a destination EPS network. The device receives, from the destination PCRF device, a connection admission control (CAC) decision for the destination EPS network; determines, based on the CAC decision for the destination EPS network, a dual CAC decision for the originating EPS network and the destination EPS network; and forwards, to the destination PCRF device, the dual CAC decision.

Dual connection admission control (CAC) at origination and destination points in LTE and EPC networks

A device receives, from multiple network elements, status information for a user equipment (UE) connection associated with a wireless core network and updates, based on the status information received from the network elements, a database record for the UE connection. The device receives, from an application server, a request for information associated with the UE connection and constructs, based on the request and from the database record, a resource message that includes real-time information about the UE connection. The device sends the resource message to the application server. The device also provides a disconnect message to the application server and/or the network elements when the status information received from the network elements indicates that the UE has been disconnected from the wireless core network.

Global real-time network resource and timer synchronization

A device, provided at a network edge, receives a radio frequency signal from a user equipment, and converts the radio frequency signal into an electrical signal. The device also receives, from a network controller, at least one of control information, schedule information, or congestion management information. The device performs baseband signal processing on the electrical signal, based on at least one of the control information, the schedule information, or the congestion management information, to create a modified signal. The device provides the modified signal to the network controller.

Processing network traffic at a network edge

A base station for an Internet protocol (IP) wireless access network receives an initial attach request from a user device. Based on the initial attach request, a policy and charging rules function (PCRF) device provides to the base station, a subscriber bearer policy that includes a particular quality-of-service control indicator (QCI) value, an uplink data rate limit, and a downlink data rate limit. The base station calculates an uplink bandwidth allocation, based on the QCI value and the uplink data rate limit, that is proportionate to the total maximum data rate of all uplink traffic with the same QCI value. The base station also calculates a downlink bandwidth allocation, based on the QCI value and the downlink data rate limit, that is proportionate to the total maximum data rate of all downlink traffic with the same QCI value.

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