Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Sergio Aguirre

Lalit R Kotecha

Raafat Edward Kamel

Kamlesh S Kamdar

Rakesh H Chandwani

David Chiang

Lee K Tjio

Derek Hongwei H Bao

Aref Iskandar

Jin Yang

Ye Huang

Jignesh Shantilal Panchal

Yee Sin Chan

Amir Saghir

Zheng Zhao

Derek Hongwei Bao

John Gu

Scott Anthony Townley

Shankar Venkatraman

Vijay T Madhav

Danny Chick-Leung Lui

Christopher M Schmidt

Matthew W Nelson

Arvind Basra

William Howard Stone, Jr

Musa Kazim Guven

Kent William Hughes

Parvez Ahmad

Brett I Rogers

David M Alward

Wai Shun Wilson Wong

Lai King (Anna) Tee

Jae-Wook Song

A small cell device may communicate with a user device (e.g., a smartphone, a tablet computer, etc.) via a range extender device that extends the effective range of the small cell device to the user device. The small cell device, the range extender device, and the user device may communicate with one another using channels of a licensed spectrum (e.g., traditional LTE channels). The range extender device may determine channel conditions corresponding to an unlicensed spectrum (e.g., 5 Gigahertz (GHz) Spectrum) and communicate the channel conditions to the small cell device. Based on the channel conditions, the small cell device and the range extender device may select downlink-only channels of the unlicensed spectrum and cause the downlink capabilities of the channels of the unlicensed spectrum to be augmented by the downlink capabilities of the downlink-only channels of the unlicensed spectrum.

Providing LTE network devices with downlink channels in an unlicensed spectrum

A base station may obtain channel usage information identifying usage of one or more unlicensed radio frequency (RF) spectrum bands. The base station may select a selected band, of the one or more unlicensed RF spectrum bands, based on the channel usage information. The base station may select one or more RF channels, of multiple RF channels included in the selected band, based on a congestion value of the selected band. The congestion value may be determined based on values of the channel usage information corresponding to the selected band. The selected RF channel may include an impaired RF channel that may not permit full bandwidth utilization due to constraints. The base station may communicate with user equipment via the one or more RF channels of the selected band.

Selecting radio frequency channels for carrier aggregation in an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band

A method includes receiving metrics associated with traffic that complies with a grade of service (GOS) associated with a customer premises equipment (CPE) device, where the metrics identify a group of cells via which the traffic is received by the CPE device. The method also includes retrieving information associated with traffic conditions within a group of base stations; initiating a load balancing operation when traffic conditions within a base station indicate that a particular cell, associated with the base station, is congested; and sending, to a set of base stations that send traffic to the CPE device, a notification, where the notification causes traffic, not destined for the CPE device, to be rerouted to another base station, which enables the base station to send traffic, that complies with the GOS, to the CPE device, or causes the CPE device to receive traffic, that complies with the GOS, from a further based station.

Load balancing to provide a target grade of service (GOS)

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 device may receive a request for a transmission of media content. The device may determine a set of rules associated with the transmission of the media content. The device may assign one or more radio frequency (RF) spectrum bands for the transmission of the media content. The device may provide or receive the media content via the one or more RF spectrum bands.

Allocating unlicensed and licensed radio frequency spectrum bands for the transmission of audio and video packets

A device may receive information related to a channel. The information may indicate whether a measurement related to the channel satisfies a threshold. The threshold may be related to an availability of the channel. The device may determine an aggregation mode to use to communicate via the channel. The device may determine a set of available channels based on determining whether the measurement satisfies the threshold. The device may determine an order related to the set of available channels based on determining the set of available channels. The order may be based on the availability of the set of available channels. The device may select a channel from the set of available channels based on the order related to the set of available channels. The device may exchange communications via the channel based on selecting the channel.

Method and device for increased bandwidth utilizing aggregation mode and channel selection mechanism

A base station may include logic configured to determine system throughput values for a plurality of modulation and coding schemes based on data throughput values and based on a number of user equipment (UE) devices serviced by the base station; determine a modulation and coding scheme, of the plurality of coding schemes, that is associated with a highest system throughput; and determine radio frequency (RF) conditions associated with the base station. The logic may further be configured to define a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service (MBMS) area based on the determined RF conditions and the selected modulation and coding scheme and provide an update to the UE devices serviced by the base station, wherein UE devices located within the defined MBMS area are sent the update using MBMS and UE devices located outside the defined MBMS area are sent the update using unicast.

Optimizing MTC updates using MBMS

A device may receive information identifying a first sub-frame being transmitted by a base station via a first radio frame. The first sub-frame may be reserved for providing a particular set of transmissions. The device may identify a second sub-frame, that is to be transmitted by the device via a second radio frame and that corresponds to the first sub-frame. The second sub-frame being included in a second radio frame. The device may blank the second sub-frame based on identifying the second sub-frame that corresponds to the first sub-frame. The device may transmit the second radio frame with the blanked second sub-frame.

Interference reduction for eMBMS service

A base station may allocate resources of an unlicensed radio frequency (RF) spectrum band among multiple operator networks, associated with different network operators, that use different licensed RF spectrum bands. The base station may receive downlink traffic destined for a user equipment. The base station may identify an operator network, of the multiple operator networks, associated with the user equipment. The base station may provide the downlink traffic to the user equipment using one or more unlicensed RF channels of the unlicensed RF spectrum band based on identifying the operator network and based on allocating the resources of the unlicensed RF spectrum band among the multiple operator networks.

Allocating resources of an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band among multiple operator networks for carrier aggregation

A device receives an address from a computer terminal; determines a location associated with the address; and determines a current signal quality at the location by referencing a file that represents an area that includes the location. The device further determines whether the location qualifies for a fixed wireless service based on the current signal quality. The device also transmits information to the computer terminal. The information indicates whether the location qualifies for the fixed wireless service.

Qualifying locations for fixed wireless services

A device receives configuration information that instructs the device about when to send content to a user device. The device also receives content from an application server at a first time, and stores the content. The device determines, based on the configuration information, that the content is to be sent to the user device, and sends the content to the user device based on the determination. The content is sent to the user device at a second time that is later than the first time.

Cache and delivery based application data scheduling

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