Limiting the use of signals with a potentially interfering band by user equipment operated above ground level
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorHaywood Peitzer
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Abstract
The technologies described herein are generally directed to, based on a determination that a user equipment is operating from an airborne aircraft, limiting the use signals with potentially interfering bands in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include receiving, via a communications network, altitude information corresponding to an altitude of a user equipment. Further, the method can include, based on the altitude, generating a signal limiting instruction applicable to limit a signal. The method can further include, communicating the signal limiting instruction to alter the signal associated with the user equipment with respect to a potentially interfering band.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving, via a communications network by routing controller equipment comprising a processor, altitude information corresponding to an altitude of a user equipment;
- based on the altitude, generating, by the routing controller equipment, a signal limiting instruction applicable to limit a signal associated with the user equipment;
- obtaining, by the routing controller equipment, location information associated with the user equipment;
- determining, by the routing controller equipment, a list of bands based on the location information;
- determining, by the routing controller equipment, a potentially interfering band from the list of bands based on historical usage utilizing an artificial intelligence (AI) model resulting in a determination,
- wherein the altitude being above a high-altitude threshold corresponds with the signal limiting instruction comprising a band muting instruction that causes the user equipment not to transmit the signal using the potentially interfering band,
- wherein the altitude being below the high-altitude threshold and above a medium-altitude threshold corresponds with the signal limiting instruction comprising an instruction that:
- permits transmission of the signal using the potentially interfering band, and
- alters the signal to limit a potential for interference caused by the signal using the potentially interfering band, and
- wherein the medium-altitude threshold is above ground level and below the high-altitude threshold;
- and
- based on the determination, facilitating, by the routing controller equipment, communicating the signal limiting instruction to alter the signal associated with the user equipment with respect to the potentially interfering band.
A user equipment, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- identifying an altitude of the user equipment,
- determining a potentially interfering signal band from a list of signal bands based on historical usage utilizing an artificial intelligence (AI) model resulting in a determination;
- identifying an instruction that is related to the potentially interfering signal band from the list of signal bands, wherein the list of signal bands is determined from location information associated with the user equipment, wherein the instruction was generated based on a determination, based on the altitude, that a signal of the potentially interfering signal band has at least a threshold likelihood of interfering with a modality of transport, and
- based on the instruction, altering use of the potentially interfering signal band for transmission by the user equipment.
A non-transitory machine-readable medium, comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processor of a controller device, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:
- receiving enhanced emergency location information for a user device;
- determining a list of bands based on the enhanced emergency location information;
- determining a potentially interfering band from the list of bands based on historical usage utilizing an artificial intelligence (AI) model resulting in a determination;
- based on the enhanced emergency location information and based on the determination, determining that the user device has a potential for interfering with an operation of an aircraft;
- and
- based on the potential for interfering, controlling the user device not to transmit an interfering signal using a specified band within the list of bands.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.