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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 29, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 14, 2015
Applicant:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Inventors:
Peter J. McCann, Bridgewater, NJ (US);
Jiangnan Jason Chen, Hawthorn Woods, IL (US);
Assignee:
Futurewei Technologies, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/715 (2013.01); H04W 40/24 (2009.01); H04L 12/717 (2013.01); H04W 40/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 45/64 (2013.01); H04L 45/42 (2013.01); H04W 40/00 (2013.01);
Abstract
An embodiment wireless communication system includes a base station and a software defined network (SDN)-enabled switch/router configured to communicate data packets with the base station. The wireless communication system also includes a computing platform running at least one virtual device and that is configured to communicate with the SDN-enabled switch/router and to provide software to configure operation of the SDN-enabled switch/router.