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: 20230292230
    Abstract: A device comprises a memory and one or more processors. The memory stores a User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP). The one or more processors are configured to: receive a packet from a user device; determine a traffic descriptor associated with the packet; apply a URSP to the traffic descriptor to identify a network slice, within a network, to which the packet is to be forwarded; and forward the packet to the network slice over a wireless connection from the device to the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Deepa Jagannatha, Lily Zhu, Samirkumar Patel
  • Patent number: 11751142
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may include a memory storing instructions and processor configured to execute the instructions to receive a first reconfiguration message from a wireless station of a radio access network to attempt to place the UE device into a first power saving state. The UE device may be further configured to execute the instructions to determine that a battery level is below a first predetermined threshold; transmit, to the wireless station, a second power savings request when it is determined that the battery level is below the predetermined threshold, to place the UE device into a second power saving state; receive a second reconfiguration message from the wireless station based on the second power savings request; and execute adjustments in the second reconfiguration message to place the UE device into the second power saving state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Brian T. Mecum, Balaji L. Raghavachari
  • Patent number: 11751074
    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: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Lily Zhu, Hui Zhao, Andrew E. Youtz
  • Patent number: 11711868
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a radio frequency band selection service is provided. The radio frequency band selection service may include a default service band, a default coverage band, and a threshold value that allows an end device to select a radio frequency band to camp on when in an idle mode, select a radio frequency band to obtain service when in a connected mode, and select stand-alone or non-stand-alone services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Susan Wu Sanders, Brian T. Mecum, Monte Giles
  • Publication number: 20230232229
    Abstract: A system described herein may maintain information associating one or more tokens to one or more network slices associated with a network. The system may receive a request, from an application executing at a User Equipment (“UE”), for communication session information, where the request includes a particular token. The system may identify a particular network slice associated with the particular token based on the information associating the one or more tokens to the one or more network slices. The system may receive communication session information, associated with the particular network slice, from the network, and may provide the communication session information to the application. The application may use the communication session information to communicate with the network via the particular network slice. The application may use such communication session information without providing an application identifier to the network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Balaji L. Raghavachari, Lily Zhu, Bharadwaj Vemuri, Miguel A. Carames, Brian T. Mecum
  • Patent number: 11696355
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein improve a customer experience for non-standalone cellular networks by displaying a secondary cell group (SCG) network icon after data activity ends while a user device likely remains in SCG coverage. When connected to the SCG, the user device detects inactivity on the connection and initiates a first timer, based on the detecting, while continuing to present an SCG-related icon. If the first timer expires while the user device is in an idle state, the user device initiates a second timer, while continuing to present the SCG-related icon. If the user device detects an active connection before expiration of the second timer, the user device initiates a third timer while continuing to present the SCG-related icon. If the user device fails to detect a connection to the SCG before expiration of the third timer, a master cell group (MCG)-related icon is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Haberman, Michael A. Lombardo, Andrew E. Youtz, Tajas Bhavsar, Christopher M. Mullen, Raafat Edward Kamel, Balaji L. Raghavachari, Lily Zhu, Esneyder Ospina
  • Patent number: 11689960
    Abstract: In some implementations, a network device may monitor a communication session associated with a user equipment and a network. The network device may determine a service-level identifier associated with a subscription of the user equipment, wherein the subscription is for a particular level of service that is to be provided by the network to the user equipment. The network device may determine that a performance metric associated with the communication session satisfies a performance threshold associated with the particular level of service. The network device may provide the service-level identifier to the user equipment based on the performance metric satisfying the performance threshold, wherein the service-level identifier enables an indication that the user equipment is receiving the particular level of service to be displayed by the user equipment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Lily Zhu, Balaji L. Raghavachari
  • Patent number: 11671905
    Abstract: A method for prioritizing scanning to improve system acquisition includes scanning, by a user equipment device (UE), for base stations associated with a first radio access technology (RAT); establishing, by the UE, a first wireless channel between the UE and a first base station based on the first RAT; determining, by the UE, whether information associated with a second RAT was received via the first wireless channel; scanning, by the UE, for base stations associated with the second RAT in response to receiving the information via the first wireless channel, where the scanning is based on the received information; determining, by the UE, whether a second wireless channel based on the second RAT is established between the UE and a second base station; and camping, by the UE, on the second base station associated with the second RAT in response to determining that the second wireless channel was established.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Andrew E. Youtz, Hui Zhao, Samirkumar Patel, Xin Wang
  • Publication number: 20230171604
    Abstract: A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which an inter-RAT PDN connection management service is provided. The service may include provisioning a packet data network (PDN) session based on network slice (NS) and access point name (APN) information received from an end device via a non-slice radio access device. The service may further include provisioning, during the PDU session, a network slice based on the NS and APN information in which core devices of the network slice are selected and the same as the core devices that supported the PSN session.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Sudhakar Reddy Patil, Deepa Jagannatha, Violeta Cakulev, Raquel Morera Sempere, Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 11659476
    Abstract: A base station device broadcasts a base station identifier. The base station identifier is assigned to the base station device, and is broadcasted in one or more system information messages that are receivable by user devices located within a threshold distance from the base station device. The base station device determines whether the base station identifier is to be altered, and processes the base station identifier to generate an altered base station identifier for the base station device. The base station device performs one or more actions to cause the altered base station identifier to be broadcasted. The altered base station identifier is broadcasted in one or more additional system information messages that are receivable by the user devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Schmidt, Lily Zhu, Abhishek Rajendrakumar Panchal
  • Patent number: 11659452
    Abstract: Systems and methods described herein bring a 5G standalone-capable end device back into 5G service to leverage the 5G network's data capacity as soon as a VoLTE call is over. A network device receives a fallback connection, for a 5G New Radio (NR) standalone-capable end device, from a second network to the first network to support a voice call on the end device, wherein the fallback connection supports a voice-over-LTE call. The network device detects an end of the VoLTE call and initiates, in response to the detecting, a handover of the end device back to the second network, wherein the initiating occurs while the end device is in a radio resource control (RRC) connected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Lily Zhu, Xin Wang, Andrew E. Youtz, Hui Zhao, Deepa Jagannatha
  • Publication number: 20230126346
    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: December 22, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Lily Zhu, Hui Zhao, Andrew E. Youtz
  • Patent number: 11638189
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a core network selection service is provided. The core network selection service may minimize end devices transitioning between core networks of a multi-radio access technology (RAT) radio access network (RAN) based on cell selection priority configurations. The cell selection priority configurations may be provisioned on the end device via control messaging, such as system information block messages. The core network selection service may manage the end devices when in idle mode and in a connected mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Deepa Jagannatha, Susan Wu Sanders, Lily Zhu, Hui Zhao, Monte Giles, Samirkumar Patel, Xin Wang
  • Publication number: 20230110709
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can receive a first data stream and a second data stream; store data units of the second data stream, as stored data units, in a buffer while a retransmission operation is performed for the first data stream; determine that a threshold is satisfied with regard to the buffer, wherein the threshold is associated with a counter that is maintained based on the storing of the data units; and provide the stored data units based on determining that the threshold is satisfied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Xin WANG, Hui ZHAO, Lily ZHU, Andrew E. YOUTZ
  • Publication number: 20230087430
    Abstract: Methods, kits, and systems using machine-readable labels are disclosed to assist in communications between the material provider and the end-user of a graphic film product, especially when the end-user does not acquire the graphic film product directly from the material, where such communications may relate to the warranty for the graphic film product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Li WEN, Hui LI, Lily ZHU, Xiaoyun JIANG, Maroun D. MOUSSALLEM
  • Patent number: 11595869
    Abstract: A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described which provide for generating, by a wireless station of a multi-radio access technology (RAT) radio access network (RAN) that includes a new radio (NR) RAN and a RAN of a Long Term Evolution (LTE) network, a non-system information block (SIB) message that includes cell reselection priority information and NR stand-alone (SA) neighboring cell information, wherein an order of priority configures an end device attached to the LTE RAN to reselect to a first radio frequency (RF) channel of a first NR SA neighboring cell; and broadcasting the non-SIB message to the end device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Hui Zhao, Susan Wu Sanders, Lily Zhu
  • Patent number: 11582619
    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: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Lily Zhu, Hui Zhao, Andrew E. Youtz
  • Patent number: 11575621
    Abstract: A network device includes a network interface for establishing a communication session with another network device, a memory to store instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions. The processor may, for each time period during the communication session, adjust a size of a receive buffer of a socket. When the processor adjusts the size, the processor, if a utilization number of the receive buffer is greater than a high threshold: may determine a first new size for the receive buffer, and set a size of the receive buffer to the first new size. If the utilization number is less than a low threshold, the processor may determine a second new size for the receive buffer; and set the size of the receive buffer to the second new size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Feng Li, Haim S. Ner, Lily Zhu, Parry Cornell Booker
  • Patent number: 11558432
    Abstract: A network device determines radio frequency (RF) conditions at a first endpoint and a second endpoint of a call or session. The network device determines optimum first codec parameters for the determined RF conditions at the first endpoint of the call or session, and determines optimum second codec parameters for the determined RF conditions at the second endpoint of the call or session. The network device sends the first codec parameters to the first endpoint for altering operation of a first codec at a first device at the first endpoint. The network device sends the second codec parameters to the second endpoint for altering operation of a second codec at a second device at the second endpoint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew E. Youtz, Jun Yuan, Jignesh S. Panchal, Lily Zhu, Xin Wang
  • Patent number: 11546796
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) can receive a first data stream and a second data stream; store data units of the second data stream, as stored data units, in a buffer while a retransmission operation is performed for the first data stream; determine that a threshold is satisfied with regard to the buffer, wherein the threshold is associated with a counter that is maintained based on the storing of the data units; and provide the stored data units based on determining that the threshold is satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Xin Wang, Hui Zhao, Lily Zhu, Andrew E. Youtz