US 11,690,100 B2Granted

Multi-band radio allocation for mobile networks

AssigneeT-Mobile USA, Inc.

InventorsDavid Jones, Ahmad Armand

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Abstract

This disclosure is directed to allocation of one or more radio bands to a user equipment (UE) for establishing a radio link with a radio node (e.g., eNodeB or gNodeB). The radio bands may include a shared band, such as citizens band radio service (CBRS), a primary licensed band, such as the B66 band, and/or an unlicensed band, such as B46 band. A radio communications system may consider a variety of parameters associated with the distance of a UE from a radio node, signal strength of a signal from the UE, the services requested by the UE, and/or spectral availability of the each of the radio bands to determine which radio band(s) to allocate to the UE. In some cases, the radio band allocated to a UE may be dynamically changed by the radio communications system as conditions related to the UE and/or the mobile network change.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
receiving, from a first user equipment (UE), a first signal;
determining, based at least in part on the first signal, a first signal strength associated with the first signal;
receiving, from a second UE, a second signal;
determining, based at least in part on the second signal, a second signal strength associated with the second signal;
determining that the first signal strength is less than a first threshold value;
determining that the first signal strength is less than a second threshold value that is less than the first threshold value;
determining that the second signal strength is greater than the first threshold value;
allocating a first radio band for a first communication with the first UE based at least in part on determining that the first signal strength is less than the first threshold value, the first radio band comprising a licensed band;
and
allocating a second radio band for a second communication with the second UE based at least in part on determining that the second signal strength is greater than the first threshold value.

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A non-transitory computer-readable medium having programming instructions stored thereon which, when operated by a computing device, cause the computing device to perform operations comprising:

receiving, from a first user equipment (UE), a first signal;
determining, based at least in part on the first signal, a first signal strength associated with the first signal;
receiving, from a second UE, a second signal;
determining, based at least in part on the second signal, a second signal strength associated with the second signal;
determining that the first signal strength is less than a first threshold value;
determining that the first signal strength is less than a second threshold value that is less than the first threshold value;
determining that the second signal strength is greater than the first threshold value;
allocating a first radio band for a first communication with the first UE based at least in part on determining that the first signal strength is less than the first threshold value, the first radio band comprising a licensed band;
and
allocating a second radio band for a second communication with the second UE based at least in part on determining that the second signal strength is greater than the first threshold value.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/533,520Filed 23 Nov 2021 · continuation
Priority: 19 Sep 2019
Published: US 2022/0086905 A117 Mar 2022
Granted: 27 Jun 2023
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification13 codes

H04W 16/14
Network planning, e.g. coverage or traffic planning tools; Network deployment, e.g. resource partitioning or cells structures: spectrum sharing…
H04W 74/0808
Non-scheduled access, e.g. ALOHA: using carrier sensing, e.g. carrier sense multiple access [CSMA]
H04B 17/318
Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters: received signal strength
H04W 24/02
Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements: arrangements for optimising operational condition

Family

Application16/576,478Parent of this continuation · filed 19 Sep 2019
US 2022/0086905 A1Pre-grant publication · published 17 Mar 2022
US 11,212,834 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2021/0092767 A1Published application
US 11,690,100 B2This patent

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