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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.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 15, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2020
Applicant:

Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);

Inventors:

Arghya Mukherjee, Acton, MA (US);

Om Prakash Suthar, Bolingbrook, IL (US);

Yoshitaka Nagami, Tokyo, JP;

Fei Gao, Kanagawa-Ken, JP;

Santanu Dasgupta, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC., San Jose, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/08 (2009.01); H04B 7/26 (2006.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02);
Abstract

A broker network may be configured to serve as an intermediary between one or more radio providers and one or more mobile service providers for reservation of remote radio units (RRUs) for use in a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) environment. The broker network may receive, from a mobile network, a message indicating a request for identification of RRUs of at least one radio provider. The broker network may send, to the mobile network, one or more messages including a plurality of identifiers which identify a plurality of RRUs, and a geographic location and capabilities associated with each RRU. After receiving a selection of an RRU, the broker network may send to the RRU a message which triggers communication with a virtualized Distributed Unit (vDU) for a remote configuration of parameters in the selected RRU, so that it may be used to facilitate communication with UEs in the mobile network.


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