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: 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: 11774054
    Abstract: The present invention provides a downlight, which pertains to the technical field of lighting equipment. The present downlight comprises a downlight housing, an aluminum substrate module and a transparent cover. The transparent cover has a plurality of bayonet-coupling protrusions protruding vertically, the downlight housing has a horizontal ring-shaped support wall, the support wall is provided thereon with bayonet-coupling slots in one-to-one correspondence with the bayonet-coupling protrusions, each of the bayonet-coupling slots comprises circumferentially arranged a wide slot segment and a narrow slot segment, and each of the bayonet-coupling protrusions is capable of inserting vertically into the wide slot segment of one of the corresponding bayonet-coupling slots and sliding circumferentially along the one of the corresponding bayonet-coupling slots to the narrow slot segment where the bayonet-coupling protrusion abuts with its lower end surface against the support wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: Taizhou JiaoGuang Lighting Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Lili 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
  • Patent number: 11765633
    Abstract: A wireless station of a radio access network receives a reselection priority value of a frequency band used when the wireless station is an E-UTRA-NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) anchor. The wireless station broadcasts an intra-frequency system information block (SIB) that includes a first Cell Reselection Priority information element (IE) and a first Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE, wherein the first Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE includes the reselection priority value of the frequency band used by the wireless station. The wireless station also broadcast an inter-frequency SIB that includes a second Cell Reselection Priority IE and a second Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE, wherein the second Anchor-cell Reselection Priority IE includes another reselection priority value of another frequency band for another EN-DC anchor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.
    Inventors: Jignesh S. Panchal, Yuexin Dong, Andrew E. Youtz, Lily Zhu, Samirkumar Patel
  • Publication number: 20230291607
    Abstract: A device includes a memory to store a User Equipment Route Selection Policy (URSP) and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to: obtain network traffic comprising first network traffic and second network traffic, wherein the second network traffic originates from one or more user equipment devices (UEs); apply the URSP to the network traffic; and in response to applying the URSP, forward protocol data units (PDUs) of the network traffic to either a first tunnel to a first network slice or a second tunnel to a second network slice. The first tunnel and the second tunnel are established from the device to the first network slice and the second network slice over communication paths that include at least a wireless communication link from the device to a radio access network (RAN).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Samirkumar Patel, Deepa Jagannatha, Lily Zhu
  • 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: 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