Patents by Inventor Thomas Forner

Thomas Forner 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).

  • Patent number: 12477324
    Abstract: To enable a private enterprise to subscribe to wireless service provided at a site of the private enterprise using a private radio access network (RAN), one embodiment is directed to a hyperscale network configured to: obtain subscription information for providing the wireless; determine initial configurations for physical entities deployed at the site; store the determined initial configurations in vendors clouds; deploy, in the hyperscale network, virtual entities needed to provide the wireless service; instruct the private enterprise to cause the physical entities deployed at the site to perform initial bootstrap processes whereby the physical entities download the determined initial configurations for use thereby in communicating with at least one of the virtual entities; and provide final configurations to the physical entities and the virtual entities for use thereby in configuring the physical entities and the virtual entities to provide the wireless service at the site using the RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2025
    Assignee: Outdoor Wireless Networks LLC
    Inventors: Devaraj Sambandan, Gaurav Mittal, Manikanda Kumar Thoguluva Kannan, Tarun Dewan, Thomas Forner
  • Publication number: 20230101566
    Abstract: To enable a private enterprise to subscribe to wireless service provided at a site of the private enterprise using a private radio access network (RAN), one embodiment is directed to a hyperscale network configured to: obtain subscription information for providing the wireless; determine initial configurations for physical entities deployed at the site; store the determined initial configurations in vendors clouds; deploy, in the hyperscale network, virtual entities needed to provide the wireless service; instruct the private enterprise to cause the physical entities deployed at the site to perform initial bootstrap processes whereby the physical entities download the determined initial configurations for use thereby in communicating with at least one of the virtual entities; and provide final configurations to the physical entities and the virtual entities for use thereby in configuring the physical entities and the virtual entities to provide the wireless service at the site using the RAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: CommScope Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Devaraj Sambandan, Gaurav Mittal, Manikanda Kumar Thoguluva Kannan, Tarun Dewan, Thomas Forner