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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:
Feb. 20, 2024

Filed:

May. 17, 2021
Applicant:

At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);

Inventors:

Milap Majmundar, Austin, TX (US);

Thomas Novlan, Cedar Park, TX (US);

Xiaoyi Wang, Austin, TX (US);

Salam Akoum, Austin, TX (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01); H04W 8/24 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/14 (2018.02); H04L 5/1469 (2013.01); H04W 4/70 (2018.02); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); H04W 8/24 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating creating a mesh connectivity between network nodes in a hierarchical network. According an embodiment, a method comprising receiving a first condition, wherein the first condition indicates whether to setup a mesh connection with a first distributed unit node of a first node device. The method further comprising, in response to determining that the first condition indicates establishment of the mesh connection, facilitating establishing a peer-to-peer connection directly with the first distributed unit node of the first node device and a second distributed unit node of a second node device, wherein the first distributed unit node comprises wireless communication technologies and the second distributed unit node comprises wireless communication technologies. The method further comprising facilitating transmission of a control message or a user plane message in order to exchange connection information between the first distributed unit node and the second distributed unit node.


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