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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 10, 2025
Filed:
Jan. 19, 2023
Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Pankaj Shete, Tokyo, JP;
Awn Muhammad, Tokyo, JP;
RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
Apparatuses and methods for a non-real-time radio access network intelligence controller (NRT-RIC) framework in an open radio access network (O-RAN), the apparatus includes: a memory storing instructions; and at least one processor configured to implement the NRT-RIC framework to: receive, from an rApp hosted by the NRT-RIC, at least one request of at least one R1-O2-related service via an R1 interface within the O-RAN architecture between rApps and the NRT-RIC framework; and send, from the NRT-RIC framework to the rApp, at least one response of the at least one R1-O2-related service via the R1 interface; wherein the at least one request and the at least one response are implemented as data types comprising a plurality of R1 data models of an R1 application protocol that enable the NRT-RIC framework and the rApp to produce and/or consume data of the at least one R1-O2 related service in the NRT-RIC.