Patents by Inventor Lily Zhu

Lily Zhu 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).

  • Publication number: 20240147342
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein intelligently multiplex different types of traffic in a fixed wireless access (FWA) environment by communicating with the user/application directly so that the network capacity can be maximized for different types of traffic. A routing device in a customer premises network receives a routing policy and receives an indication of network congestion conditions. The routing device identifies one or more sources of delay-tolerant traffic in the customer premises network, such as a local area network (LAN), and applies the routing policy to delay data transmissions from the source based on identifying the indication of network congestion conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Balaji L. Raghavachari, Wenyuan Lu, Le Su
  • Publication number: 20240147269
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein improve a customer experience by enabling a user equipment (UE) device to accurately display a premium network icon based on network signaling. A network device stores configuration thresholds for supporting a premium cellular service and monitors network conditions against the configuration thresholds. When the network conditions meet at least one of the configuration thresholds, the network device provides to the UE device a signal for the UE device to present a premium network icon to a user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Brian T. Mecum, Balaji L. Raghavachari, Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 11956848
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a dynamic C-DRX provisioning service is provided. The service may disable or enable discontinuous reception on a per end device application or network slice basis. The service may invoke an end device capability procedure to modify a discontinuous reception configuration of a network. The service may store information that correlates an application or network slice to a discontinuous reception setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Brian T. Mecum, Balaji L. Raghavachari, Garima Garg, Taussif Khan, Lily Zhu
  • Publication number: 20240106978
    Abstract: A network device may receive a request for functionality to switch to wideband audio at a user device receiving over-the-top (OTT) video and OTT audio associated with a video conferencing application provided by an application server. The network device may switch from the OTT audio to the wideband audio, for the video conferencing application, based on receiving the request for the functionality. The network device may provide the wideband audio associated with the video conferencing application to the user device to cause the user device to provide the OTT video and the wideband audio independently.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily ZHU, Rohit SONALKAR, Alagu PERIYANNAN, Timothy M. DWIGHT, Brian T. MECUM
  • Publication number: 20240089329
    Abstract: A user device may receive a traffic category and/or slice usage policy, and may provide a request for an application. The user device may receive the application with a traffic category and/or slice usage requirement, and may install the application on the user device. The user device may subscribe to traffic categories and/or slices, and may receive approval to utilize the traffic categories and/or slices. The user device may provide, by the application and to an operating system, a connection request for a particular traffic category and/or slice, and may determine whether the application is approved for the particular traffic category and/or slice. The device may provide, to a modem, the connection request and traffic descriptors for the particular traffic category and/or slice based on the application being approved, and may establish a protocol data unit session, for the application, utilizing the particular traffic category and/or slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Umesh Kumar Gupta, Lily Zhu, Muhammad Salman Nomani
  • Publication number: 20240073745
    Abstract: A method may include receiving, by at least one network device and from a user device, a registration message including a service identifier and at least one of a network slice identifier or a network slice token. The method may also include determining, based on information included in the registration message, whether the user device is authorized to use a network slice associated with the service identifier. The method may further include setting up a data session to be serviced by the network slice, in response to determining that the user device is authorized to use the network slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2022
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Ye Huang, Miguel A. Carames, Lily Zhu, Jyotsna Kachroo, Suzann Hua, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Umesh Kumar Gupta, Bjorn Hjelm
  • Patent number: 11910229
    Abstract: A system described herein may apply an authorized set of traffic parameters, such as network slicing parameters, Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters, etc. to traffic associated with a particular application, without exposing an identifier of the traffic to one or more network devices of a network that handles the traffic. A client associated with a User Equipment (“UE”) may selectively apply traffic parameters to traffic associated with the particular application further based on whether a UE-side authorization of the particular application for the traffic parameters has been performed. The UE may present a user interface via which a user may select whether to authorize or deny the use of traffic parameters, authorized by the network, for the particular application. If the particular application has been authorized by both the network and the user of the UE, the UE may apply the traffic parameters to traffic associated with the particular application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Deepa Jagannatha
  • Publication number: 20240039854
    Abstract: A device described herein may maintain information associating sets of traffic attributes with respective sets of Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters, and may receive a request to establish a traffic flow. The request may indicate one or more traffic attributes associated with the requested traffic flow. The device may compare the one or more traffic attributes, included in the request, to the information associating the sets of traffic attributes with the respective sets of QoS parameters, identify a particular set of QoS parameters with which the traffic flow is associated, establish a communication session with a network based on the particular set of QoS parameters, communicate traffic, associated with the traffic flow, with the network via the established communication session. The device may include an application programming interface (“API”) via which an application associated with the traffic flow may specify the traffic attributes in the request.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Bharadwaj Vemuri, Deepa Jagannatha, Lily Zhu, Samirkumar Patel
  • Publication number: 20240040494
    Abstract: A system described herein may provide a technique for a policy and/or rules element of a core network, such as a Policy Control Function (“PCF”), to identify a first network slice with which a communication session between a User Equipment (“UE”) and a core network, such as a protocol data unit (“PDU”) session, is associated. The policy and/or rules element may identify a second network slice with which the communication session should be associated, such as based on traffic monitoring, network congestion monitoring, or other criteria, and may output an indication, indicating a second network slice, to a session control element, such as an Session Management Function (“SMF”). The session control element may cause the communication session to be moved from the first network slice to the second network slice based on receiving the indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Violeta Cakulev, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Lily Zhu, Gerardo S. Libunao, Deepa Jagannatha, Raquel Morera Sempere
  • Patent number: 11889318
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide reliable voice connections dual-connectivity environments, given limitations of available spectrum. A system includes a first wireless station and a second wireless station. The first wireless station provides a shared spectrum of a first frequency band, the shared spectrum including a first spectrum for a first cellular wireless standard and a second spectrum for a second cellular wireless standard. The second wireless station is at least partially within a coverage area of the first wireless station and provides a third spectrum for the second cellular wireless standard. The third spectrum is a millimeter wave (mmWave) spectrum. The first wireless station broadcasts a parameter barring an end device in an idle mode from camping on the second spectrum. The first wireless station or the second wireless station triggers the end device to swap to the second spectrum when a paging request for a voice call is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Ratul Kumar Guha, Jignesh S. Panchal, Balaji L. Raghavachari, Niranjan B. Avula, Timothy M. Dwight, Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Imtiyaz Shaikh, Kalyani Bogineni, Andrew E. Youtz, Xin Wang, Sagiv Draznin
  • Patent number: 11889588
    Abstract: A user device provides, to a network, information associated with the user device, and receives, from the network, a multi-bit network indication that indicates access technologies, services, and network capabilities provided by the network. The user device determines whether the user device is in a home network or a visited network based on the multi-bit network indication. The user device passes bits of the multi-bit network indication to an upper layer when the user device is in the home network or passes a portion of the bits of the multi-bit network indication to the upper layer when the user device is in the visited network. The user device receives a selection of one of the access technologies, the services, or the network capabilities, and receives, from the network, the one of the access technologies, the services, or the network capabilities for the user device based on the selection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Yee Sin Chan, Xin Wang, Hui Zhao, Lily Zhu, Gerard J. Flynn
  • Publication number: 20240031791
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein provide a network-based solution to efficiently transition private network subscribers from a macro network to a private network. A network device in the macro network stores a neighbor list identifying a private network that has overlapping coverage with a cell for the macro network. The network device detects that a user equipment (UE) device connected to the network device has a subscription to the private network and, in response to the detecting, sends, a release message to the UE device. The release message includes a redirection to the private network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Balaji L. Raghavachari, Lily Zhu, Taussif Khan
  • Publication number: 20230422196
    Abstract: A device may include a processor configured to send a plurality of attach requests to a base station using a radio access technology (RAT) and determine that each of the plurality of attach requests has failed. The processor may be further configured to override a triggering of a backoff timer, wherein the UE device is barred from attaching using the RAT if the backoff timer is triggered and running, in response to determining that each of the plurality of attach requests has failed, and send another attach request to the base station using the RAT during a time period associated with the backoff timer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Publication date: December 28, 2023
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Deepa Jagannatha, Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 11836022
    Abstract: A user equipment may generate one or more temperature thresholds based on thermal mitigation guidelines. The one or more temperature thresholds may define a first temperature zone and a second temperature zone. The user equipment may detect a temperature of the user equipment. The user equipment may identify whether the temperature occurs in the first temperature zone or the second temperature zone. The user equipment may send information to a network device to cause one or more network actions to be performed. The one or more network actions may be configured to maintain or reduce the temperature within the first temperature zone or to reduce the temperature to cause the temperature to switch from the second temperature zone to the first temperature zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Deepa Jagannatha, Hui Zhao
  • Patent number: 11838972
    Abstract: Systems and methods provide for configuring, by a first wireless station using radio resource control (RRC), a plurality of Fifth Generation (5G) wireless stations associated with 5G secondary cell groups (SCGs), wherein the first wireless station is associated with a first anchor cell for the SCGs; determining, by the wireless station, that a dual connectivity (DC) user equipment (UE) device has a wireless connection to a first 5G wireless station via a first 5G cell, wherein a second 5G SCG is associated with a second one of the 5G wireless stations and the DC-UE device is located in an area associated with the first anchor cell and in an area associated with a second anchor cell; and switching, using a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) of the DC-UE device, the wireless connection from the first 5G cell to the second 5G cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Susan Wu Sanders, Lily Zhu
  • Publication number: 20230379764
    Abstract: A device includes a memory that stores a User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP) and a processor. The processor is configured to: receive a signal broadcast from an access station; obtain network slice congestion information from the signal; apply the URSP to the network slice congestion information to select a network slice; and establish a session with the selected network slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Deepa Jagannatha
  • Patent number: 11800594
    Abstract: A network device receives, from a user equipment (UE), a Next Generation Mobile network attach request, wherein the Next Generation Mobile network attach request includes a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) network attach request. The network device initiates attachment procedures, in response to receipt of the Next Generation Mobile network attach request and the VoLTE network attach request, to attach the UP to the Next Generation Mobile network and to a VoLTE network, and initiates establishment of a connection between the Next Generation Mobile network and the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Youtz, Jignesh Panchal, Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 11792869
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which cell selection management service is provided. An Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access-New Radio (E-UTRA-NR) Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) capable end device uses a system information block message to determine whether a wireless station is an EN-DC capable anchor device. Also, the EN-DC capable end device may store a permanent tracking area forbidden list that includes tracking area identifiers pertaining to non-EN-DC capable anchor devices that include femtocell devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Hui Zhao, Andrew E. Youtz, Xin Wang, Samirkumar Patel, Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 11778041
    Abstract: A user device may receive a traffic category and/or slice usage policy, and may provide a request for an application. The user device may receive the application with a traffic category and/or slice usage requirement, and may install the application on the user device. The user device may subscribe to traffic categories and/or slices, and may receive approval to utilize the traffic categories and/or slices. The user device may provide, by the application and to an operating system, a connection request for a particular traffic category and/or slice, and may determine whether the application is approved for the particular traffic category and/or slice. The device may provide, to a modem, the connection request and traffic descriptors for the particular traffic category and/or slice based on the application being approved, and may establish a protocol data unit session, for the application, utilizing the particular traffic category and/or slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Umesh Kumar Gupta, Lily Zhu, Muhammad Salman Nomani
  • Publication number: 20230300631
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which beam configuration management service is provided. A network device of a wireless access network provides the service that includes identifying redundant configurations across carriers associated with a cell group, and links the common beam configurations to these carriers. The service also includes identifying any difference in beam configurations relative to the common beam configurations for a carrier. The service may transmit this beam configuration information in a control plane message to an end device. The end device may use the beam configuration information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Lily Zhu, Hui Zhao, Andrew E. Youtz