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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 20, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2022
Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Rakuten Symphony, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Antonio Forenza, San Fernando, CA (US);
Nagendra Bykampadi, Bangalore, IN;
Awn Muhammad, Yokohama, JP;
RAKUTEN MOBILE, INC., Tokyo, JP;
RAKUTEN SYMPHONY, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system for providing real-time services and functions in an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) architecture, includes: a first physical node comprising at least one first processor configured to execute instructions to implement an O-RAN centralized unit (O-CU); at least one second physical node comprising at least one second processor configured to execute instructions to implement: an O-RAN distributed unit (O-DU), and a real-time (RT) RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) connected to the O-DU via an interface terminating at the RT RIC and having a latency of less than 10 ms; an O-RAN radio unit (O-RU); at least one third physical node comprising at least one third processor configured to execute instructions to implement a non-real-time (Non-RT) RIC operating at a time scale of greater than 1 second; and at least one fourth physical node including at least one fourth processor configured to execute instructions to implement a near-real-time (Near-RT) RIC operating at a time scale of 10 ms to 1 second, wherein the RT RIC is a software platform configured to host applications for controlling at least the O-DU over a real-time control loop with a latency of less than 10 ms.