Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Cellco Partnership

Thomas H Tan

Deepak Kakadia

Jay J Lee

Lalit R Kotecha

Maria G Lam

Arda Aksu

Priscilla Lau

Steven Roy Rados

John F Macias

Patricia Ruey Chang

Donna L Polehn

David Chiang

Sagiv Draznin

Derek Hongwei Bao

Patricia Ruey-Jane Chang

Derek Hongwei H Bao

Jin Yang

Yee Sin Chan

Mingxing Li

Thomas W Haynes

Benjamin J Parker

Kent William Hughes

Thaddeus Jude Dudziak

Emer M Delos Reyes

Emerando M Delos Reyes

Manish Mohan Sharma

Raymond So

Courtney D Drewski

Roger Y Finley

A system may be configured to identify that a user device is connected to a first radio access network ('RAN'), via a first technology; and to identify that the user device is capable of accessing a second RAN, via a second technology. The system may further be configured to instruct the user device to concurrently connect to the second RAN and the first RAN, send or receive a first type of traffic via the first RAN, and send or receive a second type of traffic via the second RAN.

Handing over a user device from one technology to another

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to establish a link with a wireless station of a wireless access network that is one of a next generation partial mesh network or a next generation full mesh network; receive current control information pertaining to one or multiple second links of a data plane for end user traffic that are between the wireless station and one or multiple wireless stations, the current control information including link information, service performance information, or traffic flow information; analyze the current control information; determine whether the one or multiple second links should be changed; change one or more of the one or more multiple second links when determining that the one or multiple second links should be changed; and transmit, to the wireless station, routing and forwarding information that indicates the one or more of the one or more multiple second links.

Next generation intelligent mesh network with fronthaul and backhaul services

A device is configured to receive registration information associated with a set of user devices, and to determine a group based on the registration information. The device is configured to generate a group identifier to transport a message through a network. The device is configured to determine a set of active user devices, of the set of user devices, associated with the group, and to determine a set of device identifiers associated with the set of active user devices. The device is configured to determine an association between the group identifier and the set of device identifiers, and to provide the association to a network device to cause the network device to deliver a message from a first user device, of the set of active user devices, to one or more other active user devices of the set of active user devices.

Private multicast networks

A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium provide to discover an adjacent wireless station of the wireless access network, wherein the wireless access network is a next generation mesh network; establish a wireless link with the adjacent wireless station; generate link information pertaining to the wireless link; transmit the link information to a controller of multiple wireless stations that include the wireless station and the adjacent wireless station; receive from the controller, first routing and forwarding information indicating a data plane via which the wireless station and the controller are to communicate end user traffic; and transmit to the controller, current control information pertaining to the data plane, wherein the control information includes one or more of link information, service performance information that indicates one or more service performance metrics, or traffic flow information.

A system may be configured to receive data. The system may be associated with a plurality of network interfaces that each correspond to a different radio access technology associated with one or more cellular networks. The system may identify one or more measures of load associated with each of the plurality of network interfaces; and output, based on the identified measures of load, a different portion of the received data to each network interface, of the group of network interfaces.

Providing multiple interfaces for traffic

A device may determine an elevation of an unmanned aerial vehicle, or may determine multiple signal strengths corresponding to multiple communications between the unmanned aerial vehicle and multiple base stations. The multiple communications may be transmitted via one or more frequency bands. The device may identify, based on the elevation or the plurality of signal strengths, a frequency band, of the one or more frequency bands, via which to unmanned aerial vehicle is to communicate. The device may establish a connection between the unmanned aerial vehicle and a base station, of the multiple base stations, using the frequency band.

Radio access network for unmanned aerial vehicles

A system may be configured to determine a floor of a building in which the user device is located at a time a call was placed. The information, indicating the determined floor, may be provided to a callee, such as a public safety answering point ('PSAP'). The floor may be determined based on, for example, comparing an altitude of the user device and/or a list of networks or devices that are visible to the user device, to a set of reference information.

Floor identification for emergency calls

Methods that determine position of network devices in a robust manner may include a method for determining a position of a remote radio head. The method may include generating position values of the remote radio head based on signals received by a satellite positioning system (SPS) receiver, and generating additional position values of the remote radio head from a supplemental positioning unit. The method may include determining whether an error of at least one of the position values exceeds a threshold, and storing a last position value from position values having an error within the threshold, in response to determining that the error of at least one of the position values exceeds the threshold. The method may further include calculating an updated position value of the remote radio head based on at least one of the additional position values.

Robust position determination in communication systems

A device receives Internet protocol (IP) addresses and metrics associated with network nodes of a network, and stores the IP addresses and the metrics in a route table. The device receives, from a user equipment, a request to connect to the network, and determines a particular network node, of the network nodes, to which to forward a communication session of the user equipment, based on the request and based on the metrics stored in the route table. The device forwards the communication session of the user equipment to the particular network node, and the particular network node enables the user equipment to connect to the network.

Optimized network node selection

A system may be configured to receive information regarding a geographical location of a user device; and compare the geographical location of the user device to geographical locations of a set of gateway devices. The gateway devices may be associated with a cellular network, and the gateway devices may communicatively couple one or more network devices associated with the cellular network to an access point that is not associated with the cellular network. The system may further select a particular gateway device based on the geographical location of the user device and the geographical locations of the particular gateway device; and store or output information regarding the selected particular gateway device.

Gateway selection based on geographical location

One or more devices, including one or more virtual elements associated with a virtual transmission system that emulates one or more physical devices of a physical transmission system, may receive provisioning information for a client device; provision the client device to prepare the client device to receive or transmit a data flow via the one or more virtual elements based on the provisioning information; receive the data flow; and transmit the data flow from the client device or to the client device via the one or more virtual elements based on provisioning the client device. The data flow may be transmitted or received via the one or more virtual elements to circumvent one or more gateways of the physical transmission system.

Providing provisioning and data flow transmission services via a virtual transmission system

A device may receive first common public radio interface (CPRI) information associated with a first CPRI format. The device may determine a translation key associated with the first CPRI format. The translation key may include information associated with translating the first CPRI information to a second CPRI format. The second CPRI format may be different from the first CPRI format. The device may generate second CPRI information based on processing the first CPRI information with the translation key. The second CPRI information may be associated with the second CPRI format. The device may provide the second CPRI information associated with the second CPRI format.

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