Patents by Inventor Bu Tian

Bu Tian has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Virtualization of control plane functions of a wireless core packet network
    Patent number: 9226333
    Abstract: A capability is provided for virtualizing control plane functions of a wireless core packet network (WCPN). A forwarding element (FE) is configured to provide a set of data plane functions of the WCPN. A virtual control element (VCE) is configured to provide a set of control plane functions of the WCPN. The VCE includes a set of virtual machines (VMs) where at least one of the VMs is configured to detect a condition associated with a tunnel, for a wireless terminal (WT), between the FE and a wireless access device (WAD) configured to serve the WT, and propagate, toward the FE, a message comprising a tunnel command configured to instruct the FE to at least one of install, remove, or modify a tunnel rule associated with the tunnel between the FE and the WAD. The tunnel enables the WT to access a packet data network (PDN).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2015
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Moritz M. Steiner, Buvaneswari A. Ramanan, Bu Tian, Lawrence M. Drabeck, Georg Hampel
  • VIRTUALIZATION OF CONTROL PLANE FUNCTIONS OF A WIRELESS CORE PACKET NETWORK
    Publication number: 20140362775
    Abstract: A capability is provided for virtualizing control plane functions of a wireless core packet network (WCPN). A forwarding element (FE) is configured to provide a set of data plane functions of the WCPN. A virtual control element (VCE) is configured to provide a set of control plane functions of the WCPN. The VCE includes a set of virtual machines (VMs) where at least one of the VMs is configured to detect a condition associated with a tunnel, for a wireless terminal (WT), between the FE and a wireless access device (WAD) configured to serve the WT, and propagate, toward the FE, a message comprising a tunnel command configured to instruct the FE to at least one of install, remove, or modify a tunnel rule associated with the tunnel between the FE and the WAD. The tunnel enables the WT to access a packet data network (PDN).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Inventors: Moritz M. Steiner, Buvaneswari A. Ramanan, Bu Tian, Lawrence M. Drabeck, Georg Hampel