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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. 24, 2026

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2023
Applicant:

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

Inventors:

Ye Chen, Marietta, GA (US);

Hongyan Lei, Plano, TX (US);

Zhi Cui, Sugar Hill, GA (US);

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 16/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, allocating a first virtualized distributed unit (vDU) to a first virtualized central unit (vCU) and a second vDU to a second vCU as part of a first configuration of a virtualized radio access network (vRAN), detecting a change in a condition in the vRAN subsequent to the allocating, and based on the detecting, reallocating the second vDU to the first vCU as part of a second configuration of the vRAN. Other embodiments are disclosed.


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