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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:
Nov. 30, 2021

Filed:

Mar. 15, 2018
Applicant:

T-mobile Innovations Llc, Overland Park, KS (US);

Inventors:

Zheng Cai, Fairfax, VA (US);

Zheng Fang, McLean, VA (US);

Saied Kazeminejad, Ashburn, VA (US);

Yu Wang, Fairfax, VA (US);

Assignee:

Sprint Communications Company L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 28/06 (2009.01); H04L 1/18 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 88/08 (2009.01); H04W 80/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0406 (2013.01); H04L 1/1812 (2013.01); H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04W 28/06 (2013.01); H04W 80/02 (2013.01); H04W 88/085 (2013.01); H04L 69/321 (2013.01);
Abstract

In a wireless network, a Distributed Unit (DU) receives Uplink (UL) data from User Equipment (UE) and a Central Unit (CU) receives Downlink (DL) data for the UE. When DL-centric applications in the UE use the DL, the CU executes most network applications and the DU executes a few network applications. When the DL-centric applications use the UL, the DU executes the network applications and the CU transfers the UL data to the core. When UL-centric applications in the UE use the DL, the CU routes the DL data to the DU, and the DU executes the network applications. When the UL-centric applications use the UL, the DU executes a few network applications and the CU executes most network applications to route the data to the core. Advantageously, the DU and the CU are optimized to process UL/DL data for a user application based on whether the user application is UL-centric or DL-centric.


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