Patents by Inventor Monica Pennington

Monica Pennington 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).

  • CELL SITE ARCHITECTURE THAT SUPPORTS 5G AND LEGACY PROTOCOLS
    Publication number: 20230063941
    Abstract: In modern networks, RRU and BBU equipment of an access point site typically handles traffic from a single sector. An RRU-BBU pair process that traffic (often limited to a single spectrum from a single sector) according to implemented capabilities and other equipment located further upstream perform functions that rely on information from multiple sectors. An integrated device (e.g., white box) can integrate the functionality of multiple RRU (or NR in 5G) and the functionality of multiple BBU (or DU/CU splits in 5G), which can reduce implementation footprint, costs, and can provide related services more efficiently without going upstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Monica Pennington, Anju Bhagat
  • Cell site architecture that supports 5G and legacy protocols
    Patent number: 11533777
    Abstract: In modern networks, RRU and BBU equipment of an access point site typically handles traffic from a single sector. An RRU-BBU pair process that traffic (often limited to a single spectrum from a single sector) according to implemented capabilities and other equipment located further upstream perform functions that rely on information from multiple sectors. An integrated device (e.g., white box) can integrate the functionality of multiple RRU (or NR in 5G) and the functionality of multiple BBU (or DU/CU splits in 5G), which can reduce implementation footprint, costs, and can provide related services more efficiently without going upstream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Monica Pennington, Anju Bhagat
  • Cell site routing based on latency
    Patent number: 10728826
    Abstract: In 5G proposals, functionality of the BBU is disaggregated into a DU and a CU that handle BBU functionality according to different functional splits. A significant amount of cloud infrastructure is envisioned to be needed to implement several of the designated splits. An integrated device (e.g., white box) can integrate the functionality of multiple RRU (or NR in 5G) and the functionality of multiple BBU (or DU/CU splits in 5G). By performing a lightweight routing determination at the integrated device, requisite cloud infrastructure can be significantly reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Monica Pennington, Anju Bhagat
  • CELL SITE ROUTING BASED ON LATENCY
    Publication number: 20200008125
    Abstract: In 5G proposals, functionality of the BBU is disaggregated into a DU and a CU that handle BBU functionality according to different functional splits. A significant amount of cloud infrastructure is envisioned to be needed to implement several of the designated splits. An integrated device (e.g., white box) can integrate the functionality of multiple RRU (or NR in 5G) and the functionality of multiple BBU (or DU/CU splits in 5G). By performing a lightweight routing determination at the integrated device, requisite cloud infrastructure can be significantly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Monica Pennington, Anju Bhagat
  • CELL SITE ARCHITECTURE THAT SUPPORTS 5G AND LEGACY PROTOCOLS
    Publication number: 20200008271
    Abstract: In modern networks, RRU and BBU equipment of an access point site typically handles traffic from a single sector. An RRU-BBU pair process that traffic (often limited to a single spectrum from a single sector) according to implemented capabilities and other equipment located further upstream perform functions that rely on information from multiple sectors. An integrated device (e.g., white box) can integrate the functionality of multiple RRU (or NR in 5G) and the functionality of multiple BBU (or DU/CU splits in 5G), which can reduce implementation footprint, costs, and can provide related services more efficiently without going upstream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Monica Pennington, Anju Bhagat