Patents by Inventor Francesca Serravalle
Francesca Serravalle 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).
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Patent number: 10390270Abstract: A user communications device having active and idle states operates in a cellular communications network in which user communications devices communicate via network communications devices of cells of the network. History data identifying the cells in which the user communications device has been present whilst in the idle state is maintained. This history data is used by the user communications device or by a network communications device to enable adjustment of cell selection/reselection parameters for the user communications device in the active state.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2019Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Francesca Serravalle
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Publication number: 20190215839Abstract: A wireless communication system includes one or more base stations able to divide resources between multiple network operators sharing the base station. A shared base station is configured to monitor a contribution to the load on the base station associated with network operators sharing the base station resources and to provide the determined contribution to the load to one or more other base stations for use in load balancing between the base stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Francesca SERRAVALLE, Neeraj GUPTA, Robert PATERSON, Satoshi NOMA
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Publication number: 20190174559Abstract: A method and system are proposed for establishing a requested connection between a source node and a destination node in a telecommunications network. The system and method are described in relation to a 3GPP network, but are applicable to other types of networks. The method includes generating a source application identifier for the connection within the source node, retrieving a source node identifier for the source node and transmitting the source application identifier and the source node identifier to the destination to provide a source connection identifier for the requested connection between the source node and the destination node.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2019Publication date: June 6, 2019Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Francesca SERRAVALLE
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Patent number: 10278186Abstract: A wireless communication system includes one or more base stations able to divide resources between multiple network operators sharing the base station. A shared base station is configured to monitor a contribution to the load on the base station associated with network operators sharing the base station resources and to provide the determined contribution to the load to one or more other base stations for use in load balancing between the base stations.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Francesca Serravalle, Neeraj Gupta, Robert Paterson, Satoshi Noma
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Patent number: 10219307Abstract: A method and system are proposed for establishing a requested connection between a source node and a destination node in a telecommunications network. The system and method are described in relation to a 3GPP network, but are applicable to other types of networks. The method includes generating a source application identifier for the connection within the source node, retrieving a source node identifier for the source node and transmitting the source application identifier and the source node identifier to the destination to provide a source connection identifier for the requested connection between the source node and the destination node.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2017Date of Patent: February 26, 2019Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Francesca Serravalle
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Publication number: 20180234976Abstract: A wireless communication system includes one or more base stations able to divide resources between multiple network operators sharing the base station. A shared base station is configured to monitor a contribution to the load on the base station associated with network operators sharing the base station resources and to provide the determined contribution to the load to one or more other base stations for use in load balancing between the base stations.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2018Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Francesca SERRAVALLE, Neeraj GUPTA, Robert PATERSON, Satoshi NOMA
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Patent number: 9974083Abstract: A wireless communication system includes one or more base stations able to divide resources between multiple network operators sharing the base station. A shared base station is configured to monitor a contribution to the load on the base station associated with network operators sharing the base station resources and to provide the determined contribution to the load to one or more other base stations for use in load balancing between the base stations.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2012Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Francesca Serravalle, Neeraj Gupta, Robert Paterson, Satoshi Noma
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Publication number: 20180070393Abstract: A method and system are proposed for establishing a requested connection between a source node and a destination node in a telecommunications network. The system and method are described in relation to a 3GPP network, but are applicable to other types of networks. The method includes generating a source application identifier for the connection within the source node, retrieving a source node identifier for the source node and transmitting the source application identifier and the source node identifier to the destination to provide a source connection identifier for the requested connection between the source node and the destination node.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2017Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Francesca SERRAVALLE
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Patent number: 9844081Abstract: A method and system are proposed for establishing a requested connection between a source node and a destination node in a telecommunications network. The system and method are described in relation to a 3GPP network, but are applicable to other types of networks. The method includes generating a source application identifier for the connection within the source node, retrieving a source node identifier for the source node and transmitting the source application identifier and the source node identifier to the destination to provide a source connection identifier for the requested connection between the source node and the destination node.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Francesca Serravalle
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Publication number: 20170303174Abstract: A user communications device having active and idle states operates in a cellular communications network in which user communications devices communicate via network communications devices of cells of the network. History data identifying the cells in which the user communications device has been present whilst in the idle state is maintained. This history data is used by the user communications device or by a network communications device to enable adjustment of cell selection/reselection parameters for the user communications device in the active state.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventor: Francesca SERRAVALLE
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Patent number: 9723503Abstract: A user communications device having active and idle states operates in a cellular communications network in which user communications devices communicate via network communications devices of cells of the network. History data identifying the cells in which the user communications device has been present whilst in the idle state is maintained. This history data is used by the user communications device or by a network communications device to enable adjustment of cell selection/reselection parameters for the user communications device in the active state.Type: GrantFiled: January 30, 2009Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventor: Francesca Serravalle
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Patent number: 9661498Abstract: A method and apparatus for managing security for a connection between a user device and a communications network comprising at least one base station and a core network is provided. The method includes processing, at the core network, the security capability information for the user device and the security capability information for the first base station to select a plurality of preferred security policies for a connection between the user device and the first base station. The method also includes transmitting the selected plurality of preferred security policies to the first base station as a list of preferred security policies from which said base station can select a security policy.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2012Date of Patent: May 23, 2017Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)Inventors: Robert Arnott, Francesca Serravalle, Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia
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Publication number: 20170105159Abstract: A relay communications system is described in which a base station receives a request from an MME that an overload procedure be started or stopped. The base station inserts the identity of the MME into the request and forwards the modified request to a relay node. The relay node then initiates or terminates the overload procedure in accordance with the request for mobile telephones which the MME that made the request serves, but not for mobile telephones which the MME does not serve.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2016Publication date: April 13, 2017Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Francesca SERRAVALLE, Robert PATERSON, Robert TIETZ
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Patent number: 9560569Abstract: A relay communications system is described in which a base station receives a request from an MME that an overload procedure be started or stopped. The base station inserts the identity of the MME into the request and forwards the modified request to a relay node. The relay node then initiates or terminates the overload procedure in accordance with the request for mobile telephones which the MME that made the request serves, but not for mobile telephones which the MME does not serve.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2015Date of Patent: January 31, 2017Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Francesca Serravalle, Robert Paterson, Robert Tietz
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Patent number: 9386500Abstract: A method includes receiving, from a user device, a global cell identifier of a cell in the second communications network, wherein information for forming a Location Area Identification ‘LAI’ can be obtained from the global cell identifier, and a Routing Area Code ‘RAC’ for use in identifying a target gateway component operating within a location area represented by the Location Area Identification ‘LAI’ and associated with the neighbor base station component, generating a handover request message in the first communications network, for handing over to the neighbor base station component operating as the target base station component, the handover request message incorporating the Routing Area Code ‘RAC’ and the Location Area Identification ‘LAI’, and transmitting the handover request message to facilitate the handover to the second communications network.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2014Date of Patent: July 5, 2016Assignee: Lenovo Innovations Limited (Hong Kong)Inventor: Francesca Serravalle
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Publication number: 20160044717Abstract: A method and system are proposed for establishing a requested connection between a source node and a destination node in a telecommunications network. The system and method are described in relation to a 3GPP network, but are applicable to other types of networks. The method includes generating a source application identifier for the connection within the source node, retrieving a source node identifier for the source node and transmitting the source application identifier and the source node identifier to the destination to provide a source connection identifier for the requested connection between the source node and the destination node.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Francesca SERRAVALLE
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Patent number: 9198032Abstract: A method and system are proposed for establishing a requested connection between a source node and a destination node in a telecommunications network. The system and method are described in relation to a 3GPP network, but are applicable to other types of networks. The method includes generating a source application identifier for the connection within the source node, retrieving a source node identifier for the source node and transmitting the source application identifier and the source node identifier to the destination to provide a source connection identifier for the requested connection between the source node and the destination node.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2008Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventor: Francesca Serravalle
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Publication number: 20150312828Abstract: A relay communications system is described in which a base station receives a request from an MME that an overload procedure be started or stopped. The base station inserts the identity of the MME into the request and forwards the modified request to a relay node. The relay node then initiates or terminates the overload procedure in accordance with the request for mobile telephones which the MME that made the request serves, but not for mobile telephones which the MME does not serve.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2015Publication date: October 29, 2015Applicant: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Francesca SERRAVALLE, Robert PATERSON, Robert TIETZ
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Patent number: 9107129Abstract: A relay communications system is described in which a base station receives a request from an MME that an overload procedure be started or stopped. The base station inserts the identity of the MME into the request and forwards the modified request to a relay node. The relay node then initiates or terminates the overload procedure in accordance with the request for mobile telephones which the MME that made the request serves, but not for mobile telephones which the MME does not serve.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2011Date of Patent: August 11, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Francesca Serravalle, Robert Paterson, Robert Tietz
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Patent number: 9020503Abstract: A method of determining whether to accept a connection request from a user device requesting connection to a communications network is described. The method includes receiving a connection request from the user device, the connection request including a predefined identifier. A message requesting capability information associated with the user device is then generated and transmitted and the capability information is received in response. The method further includes determining whether to permit a connection to the user device based on the capability information and transmitting a message to release or reject or to establish the connection based on the determining. Apparatus for performing the method, including an eNodeB, gateway and user device are also described and corresponding methods of operation these components are provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2009Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: NEC CorporationInventors: Jagdeep Singh Ahluwalia, Neeraj Gupta, Francesca Serravalle