Patents by Inventor Maurizio Fodrini
Maurizio Fodrini 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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Publication number: 20240049080Abstract: A method for managing a Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything, C-V2X, connection comprising: establishing a first C-V2X connection between a first Radio Base Station, RBS, of a source Public Land Mobile Network, PLMN, and an electronic On-Board Unit, OBU, of a vehicle; establishing a second C-V2X connection between said first RBS and a first Road Side Unit Gateway, RSUG,; establishing a point-to-point connection between said first RSUG and said OBU, wherein, over said point-to-point connection, User Plane data are exchanged, which are the same User Plane data exchanged over said second C-V2X connection; at a first Application Server, AppServ, of said source PLMN, receiving from a second AppServ, of a target PLMN, a request signal, including a request for C-V2X context information, said C-V2X context information comprising a context of said OBU related to the C-V2X service provisioned over said second C-V2X connection; sending, from said first AppServ, to said second AppServ, said C-V2X context information.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Maurizio FODRINI, Damiano RAPONE
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Publication number: 20230011545Abstract: A system includes at least one mobile communication network for granting user equipment (UE) subscribed to the network a corresponding data quota comprising a corresponding amount of mobile data the UE can exchange with the network it is subscribed to. The system further includes a broker platform for making available for at least one mobile communication network a corresponding set of further data quotas, the broker platform further receiving a data amount request of a corresponding additional data quota for a UE subscribed to a corresponding network. In response to the received data amount request, the broker platform selects a further data quota from the set of further data quotas corresponding to the network the UE is subscribed to, and provides the additional data quota to the UE through the network the UE is subscribed to by exploiting at least a part of the selected further additional data quota.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2020Publication date: January 12, 2023Inventors: Maurizio Fodrini, Damiano Rapone
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Patent number: 11388735Abstract: A method for managing a full duplex mobile telecommunication network, includes measuring power of uplink and down link transmission from adjacent base stations and a user equipment, respectively. The method also includes comparing the measured powers of the uplink and downlink transmission, and if the power of the uplink transmission is lower than the power of the downlink transmission, the base station allocates dedicated uplink resources to the uplink transmission. The dedicated uplink resources are radio resources reserved only for uplink transmissions and are not usable for downlink transmissions. The dedicated uplink resources are assigned to the user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Marco Caretti, Gian Michele Dell'Aera, Maurizio Fodrini, Bruno Melis
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Publication number: 20220039083Abstract: A communication system includes a communication network and a communication system node. The communication system node communicates with the communication network via a first communication link, and establishes a second communication link with at least one user equipment to allow the user equipment to connect to the communication network. The second communication link is an unmanaged communication link. A backhauling provider module associated with the communication network dynamically allocates backhauling resources to the first communication link for data transmission between the node and the communication network based on the user equipment's parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2019Publication date: February 3, 2022Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Andrea BULDORINI, Elena DEMARIA, Maurizio FODRINI, Ivano GUARDINI, Marco MARCHISIO
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Patent number: 11153890Abstract: A method for managing a full duplex mobile telecommunication network includes providing a coordination unit of a set of base stations, and having the coordination unit group a plurality of user equipment served by said base stations to form corresponding user groups. Each user group includes a group of user equipment which are close to each other by an extent such to cause potential user equipment to user equipment interference. The method also includes having the coordination unit allocate radio resources for at least one between transmissions from user equipment to base stations, and transmissions from base stations to user equipment. The method further includes having each base station carrying out at least receiving transmissions from at least one served user equipment, and sending transmissions to at least one served user equipment by exploiting the allocated radio resources.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2018Date of Patent: October 19, 2021Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Marco Caretti, Gian Michele Dell'Aera, Maurizio Fodrini, Bruno Melis
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Patent number: 10771117Abstract: A method scheduling allocation of radio resources in a cellular network, including: selecting at least one first user equipment for performing a first type data exchange based on Coordinated Multi-Point technique and a second type data exchange not based on Coordinated Multi-Point technique, and selecting at least one second user equipment for performing only the second type data exchange; selecting at least one network node for performing the first type data exchange with the at least one first user equipment and the second type data exchange with at least one among the first and second user equipment; determining, for the at least one network node, a radio resource parameter indicative of a number of radio resources to be allocated for the first type data exchange and a number of radio resources to be allocated for the second type data exchange; allocating the radio resources based on the radio resource parameter.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Claudio Ettore Casetti, Maurizio Fodrini, Fabrizio Gatti, Mohamad Tavakoli Sanij
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Patent number: 10735152Abstract: A method for managing a cellular network. The cellular network includes a plurality of base stations each one configured to exchange data with user equipment located in a corresponding cell by exploiting a downlink data channel and an uplink data channel according to a frequency division duplexing scheme. The method includes: having a first base station exchanging coordination information with a second base station, the coordination information being related to at least one among channel state condition and resources allocation to user equipment, the having the first base station exchanging coordination information with the second base station including: transmitting the coordination information from the first base station to the second base station exploiting a portion of the downlink data channel.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2015Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Marco Caretti, Gian Michele Dell'Aera, Maurizio Fodrini, Bruno Melis, Dario Sabella
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Publication number: 20200178267Abstract: A method for managing a full duplex mobile telecommunication network includes providing a coordination unit of a set of base stations, and having the coordination unit group a plurality of user equipment served by said base stations to form corresponding user groups. Each user group includes a group of user equipment which are close to each other by an extent such to cause potential user equipment to user equipment interference. The method also includes having the coordination unit allocate radio resources for at least one between transmissions from user equipment to base stations, and transmissions from base stations to user equipment. The method further includes having each base station carrying out at least receiving transmissions from at least one served user equipment, and sending transmissions to at least one served user equipment by exploiting the allocated radio resources.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.AInventors: Marco CARETTI, Gian Michele DELL'AERA, Maurizio FODRINI, Bruno MELIS
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Patent number: 10667309Abstract: A method of enabling inter-mobile network proximity services through a direct link between mobile communication devices attached to different mobile networks, the method comprising: selecting and configuring at least one first mobile communication device attached to a first mobile network among said different mobile networks for the acquisition of configuration data related to proximity services of at least a second mobile network among said different mobile networks, said configuration data related to proximity services comprising information about radio resources assigned in said second mobile network for the proximity services; having the selected and configured first mobile communication device report the acquired configuration data related to proximity services of the at least a second mobile network to at least one between: the first mobile network, and at least one second mobile communication device located in proximity of the first mobile communication device.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2015Date of Patent: May 26, 2020Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Andrea Buldorini, Giuseppe Catalano, Maurizio Fodrini
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Publication number: 20200163101Abstract: A method for managing a full duplex mobile telecommunication network, includes measuring power of uplink and down link transmission from adjacent base stations and a user equipment, respectively. The method also includes comparing the measured powers of the uplink and downlink transmission, and if the power of the uplink transmission is lower than the power of the downlink transmission, the base station allocates dedicated uplink resources to the uplink transmission. The dedicated uplink resources are radio resources reserved only for uplink transmissions and are not usable for downlink transmissions. The dedicated uplink resources are assigned to the user equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Marco CARETTI, Gian Michele DELL'AERA, Maurizio FODRINI, Bruno MELIS
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Patent number: 10439763Abstract: A method for transmitting broadcast network information in a mobile wireless communication network includes a plurality of network nodes. The method includes providing a compression of broadcast network information related to a group of coordinated network nodes of the plurality of network nodes; coding the compressed broadcast network information by segmenting the compressed broadcast network information into a number of blocks and linearly combining the blocks into a plurality of linear combinations of blocks; and transmitting the linear combinations of blocks by the group of coordinated network nodes.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: Telecom Italia S.p.A.Inventors: Marco Caretti, Gian Michele Dell'aera, Maurizio Fodrini, Bruno Melis
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Patent number: 10411818Abstract: A method for estimating a signal to interference and noise ratio of a communication link between a first node and a second node of a wireless communication network, the network comprising a number of further communication links between said first node and a number of further nodes. The method comprises, at the first node, providing first estimates of useful signal powers on all the links; providing second estimates of the signal powers on the link and on the further communication links on the basis of, jointly, the first estimate of the signal power on the link and the first estimates of the signal powers on the further links; estimating the signal to interference and noise ratio as a ratio between the second estimate of the signal power on the link and a power term comprising a sum of the second estimates of the signal powers on the further links.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Ivano Collotta, Roberto Fantini, Maurizio Fodrini, Bruno Melis
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Patent number: 10334570Abstract: A method of operating a mobile communication network including plural radio transceiver stations serving and managing communications between mobile communication devices.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2013Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Marco Caretti, Gian Michele Dell'aera, Maurizio Fodrini, Bruno Melis
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Publication number: 20190140703Abstract: A method scheduling allocation of radio resources in a cellular network, including: selecting at least one first user equipment for performing a first type data exchange based on Coordinated Multi-Point technique and a second type data exchange not based on Coordinated Multi-Point technique, and selecting at least one second user equipment for performing only the second type data exchange; selecting at least one network node for performing the first type data exchange with the at least one first user equipment and the second type data exchange with at least one among the first and second user equipment; determining, for the at least one network node, a radio resource parameter indicative of a number of radio resources to be allocated for the first type data exchange and a number of radio resources to be allocated for the second type data exchange; allocating the radio resources based on the radio resource parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2016Publication date: May 9, 2019Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Claudio Ettore CASETTI, Maurizio FODRINI, Fabrizio GATTI, Mohamad TAVAKOLI SANIJ
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Publication number: 20180367267Abstract: A method for managing a cellular network. The cellular network includes a plurality of base stations each one configured to exchange data with user equipment located in a corresponding cell by exploiting a downlink data channel and an uplink data channel according to a frequency division duplexing scheme. The method includes: having a first base station exchanging coordination information with a second base station, the coordination information being related to at least one among channel state condition and resources allocation to user equipment, the having the first base station exchanging coordination information with the second base station including: transmitting the coordination information from the first base station to the second base station exploiting a portion of the downlink data channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2015Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Marco CARETTI, Gian Michele DELL'AERA, Maurizio FODRINI, Bruno MELIS, Dario SABELLA
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Publication number: 20180359038Abstract: A method for estimating a signal to interference and noise ratio of a communication link between a fist node and a second node of a wireless communication network, the network comprising a number of further communication links between said first node and a number of further nodes. The method comprises, at the first node, providing first estimates of useful signal powers on all the links; providing second estimates of the signal powers on the link and on the further communication links on the basis of, jointly, the first estimate of the signal power on the link and the first estimates of the signal powers on the further links; estimating the signal to interference and noise ratio as a ratio between the second estimate of the signal power on the link and a power term comprising a sum of the second estimates of the signal powers on the further links.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2015Publication date: December 13, 2018Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Ivano COLLOTTA, Roberto FANTINI, Maurizio FODRINI, Bruno MELIS
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Publication number: 20180235019Abstract: A method of enabling inter-mobile network proximity services through a direct link between mobile communication devices attached to different mobile networks, the method comprising: selecting and configuring at least one first mobile communication device attached to a first mobile network among said different mobile networks for the acquisition of configuration data related to proximity services of at least a second mobile network among said different mobile networks, said configuration data related to proximity services comprising information about radio resources assigned in said second mobile network for the proximity services; having the selected and configured first mobile communication device report the acquired configuration data related to proximity services of the at least a second mobile network to at least one between: the first mobile network, and at least one second mobile communication device located in proximity of the first mobile communication device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2015Publication date: August 16, 2018Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Andrea BULDORINI, Giuseppe CATALANO, Maurizio FODRINI
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Publication number: 20180198562Abstract: A method for transmitting broadcast network information in a mobile wireless communication network includes a plurality of network nodes. The method includes providing a compression of broadcast network information related to a group of coordinated network nodes of the plurality of network nodes; coding the compressed broadcast network information by segmenting the compressed broadcast network information into a number of blocks and linearly combining the blocks into a plurality of linear combinations of blocks; and transmitting the linear combinations of blocks by the group of coordinated network nodes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 30, 2015Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Marco Caretti, Gian Michele Dell'aera, Maurizio Fodrini, Bruno Melis
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Patent number: 9622150Abstract: A wireless communication network including a first transceiver station for transmitting first signals over a first area coverage and over a first transmission bandwidth, and a second transceiver station selectively activatable/de-activatable. The second transceiver station is operable to broadcast, when de-activated, a beacon signal identifying the second transceiver station, the beacon signal having a beacon frequency at edges of the first transmission bandwidth. The beacon signal is detectable by a user equipment for inferring presence of the second transceiver station. The first transceiver station is configured to receive a response signal from a user equipment based on the detected beacon signal, and to schedule activation of the second transceiver station based on the received response signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2012Date of Patent: April 11, 2017Assignee: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.A.Inventors: Marco Caretti, Gian Michele Dell'Aera, Maurizio Fodrini, Bruno Melis
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Publication number: 20160198455Abstract: A method of operating a mobile communication network including plural radio transceiver stations serving and managing communications between mobile communication devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 31, 2013Publication date: July 7, 2016Applicant: TELECOM ITALIA S.p.AInventors: Marco CARETTI, Gian Michele DELL'AERA, Maurizio FODRINI, Bruno MELIS