Patents by Inventor Thomas Novlan

Thomas Novlan 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: 20210250818
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include communicating with a core network device of a core network by employing a first wireless connection to a first base station device communicatively coupled to the core network device. The operations can further include establishing a second wireless connection with a user equipment to enable the user equipment to communicate with the core network device. The operations can further include communicating a first control message and a second control message to the user equipment, wherein the first control message comprises first parameters associated with the first wireless connection and the second control message comprises second parameters associated with the second wireless connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Milap Majmundar, Salam Akoum, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11088811
    Abstract: Facilitating virtual carrier aggregation for wideband operation of wireless communication systems is provided herein. A system can comprise: a processor; and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise: receiving, from a network device of network devices, downlink transmission data comprising downlink control information applicable to a downlink channel of the network device; as a function of the downlink transmission data, adjusting a subband of subbands resulting in an aggregation of multiple subbands; and transmitting uplink radio traffic data via the aggregation of multiple subbands to the network device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Thomas Novlan
  • Patent number: 11082329
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards lossless delivery of data when there are route changes, e.g., in an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) multi-hop relay network. When a route changes is to occur, the last unchanged node in a multiple hop route preserves the data (e.g., copies unacknowledged and unsent PDCP PDUs from the protocol stack corresponding to the radio link control layer of the failed relay hop, and populates a replacement protocol stack for the node in the new route with the preserved data. Also described is pre-emptive detection of link failure, which triggers a route change based on monitoring retransmissions to detect a deteriorating link, which can occur before complete link communication failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan
  • Patent number: 11083015
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a closed loop Listen Before Talk (LBT) which is a coexistence mechanism used by wireless technologies such as Wi-Fi, to access unlicensed shared spectrum, such as the ISM UNII bands (5 GHz). The embodiments disclosed herein enable a base station to coordinate the LBT process at both the base station and a receiver in order to avoid hidden node interference where the interfering nodes are outside the sensing range of the transmitting node. The base station device can send a LBT trigger to the receiver to synchronize the clear channel assessments that are performed at each device to determine if there is any activity on the channel. The receiving device can send back a report to the base station device, and if no activity on the channel is detected, the base station device can schedule a transmission on the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Abdulrauf Hafeez
  • Patent number: 11071091
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed toward communicating determined contention levels of resource pools to user equipments enabling the user equipments to select from available resource pools. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor and a memory that can store executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include assigning determined contention levels to respective ones of a group of resource pools. The operations can further include communicating, to a user equipment device, the determined contention levels, enabling the user equipment device to select a resource pool of the group of resource pools based on the determined contention levels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Salam Akoum, Aditya Chopra, Andrew Thornburg, Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan, Ralf Bendlin
  • Patent number: 11064449
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards over the air synchronization of network nodes. In general, the techniques disclosed herein can be implemented by a first base station node device and a second base station node device. A wireless backhaul connection between the base station node devices allows the first base station node device to connect to a core network via the second base station node device. The techniques disclosed herein can be implemented as a protocol including communications back and forth between the base station node devices, which enables measurement of communication delays such as propagation delays and processing delays. The base station node devices can then use the measured communication delays to better synchronize clocks used to time radio frequency transmissions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Aditya Chopra, Thomas Novlan, Milap Majmundar
  • Patent number: 11057791
    Abstract: In a 5G network, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) deployment in a 5G network, can enable aggregation of multiple user equipment (UE) bearers into backhaul bearers based on factors such as route information of UE bearers and quality of service of UE bearers. Additionally, reconfiguration of backhaul bearers, based on triggers, such as route changes for UE bearers can increase network efficiency for a 5G or other next generation network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan, Andrew Thornburg
  • Patent number: 11050546
    Abstract: Time domain resource allocation is facilitated for a physical downlink shared channel. For instance, a physical downlink shared channel associated with a mobile device can be configured via a broadcast channel, and a data structure associated with the physical downlink shared channel corresponding to a physical downlink control channel can also be configured. The configured data structure can be sent to the mobile device to be utilized for physical downlink shared channel transmissions between the wireless network device and the mobile device. Additionally, the time domain resources can be allocated by transmitting a physical downlink shared channel transmission to the mobile device based on a condition associated with a radio resource control connection being determined to not have been satisfied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20210194761
    Abstract: In a 5G network, an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) deployment in a 5G network, can enable aggregation of multiple user equipment (UE) bearers into backhaul bearers based on factors such as route information of UE bearers and quality of service of UE bearers. Additionally, an adaptation layer can be configured to perform aggregation of data from UE bearers into backhaul bearers either above or below a radio link control layer. Thus, aggregation of data from UE bearers into backhaul bearers can be performed either above the RLC or below the RLC to take advantage of benefits from both options.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Andrew Thornburg
  • Publication number: 20210195389
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards a multi-connectivity (three or more simultaneous communication links) framework in a wireless communication network, including aspects and components that support the operation of New Radio vehicle-to-everything (V2X) services. Aspects of the framework include initial access and V2X establishment, local manager selection, sidelink and cellular resource configuration, mobility and measurements (and reporting), group communication and vehicular platooning support, and V2X configuration and local manager association.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Xiaoyi Wang, Arunabha Ghosh, Milap Majmundar, Andrew Thornburg
  • Patent number: 11039422
    Abstract: To increase network efficiency, a user equipment (UE) can be appointed as a local manager to coordinate the allocation of resources used by other UEs. For example, the network can promote the UE as a local manager and assign the local manager a resource pool. The local manager can then broadcast synchronization signals to let the other UEs associate themselves with the local manager. After the other UEs are synced with the local manager, the local manager can allocate resources to the other UEs. Based on report data regarding the local managers management procedures, the network can maintain the UE as the local manager or demote the UE from local manager status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Xiaoyi Wang, Ralf Bendlin, Arunabha Ghosh, Andrew Thornburg, Salam Akoum, Thomas Novlan, Milap Majmundar
  • Patent number: 11039490
    Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for facilitating creating a mesh connectivity between network nodes in a hierarchical network. According an embodiment, a method comprising receiving a first condition, wherein the first condition indicates whether to setup a mesh connection with a first distributed unit node of a first node device. The method further comprising, in response to determining that the first condition indicates establishment of the mesh connection, facilitating establishing a peer-to-peer connection directly with the first distributed unit node of the first node device and a second distributed unit node of a second node device, wherein the first distributed unit node comprises wireless communication technologies and the second distributed unit node comprises wireless communication technologies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan, Xiaoyi Wang, Salam Akoum
  • Patent number: 11032721
    Abstract: An example method may include a processing system of a cellular network having a processor receiving, from a mobile endpoint device, a measurement of a performance indicator, a location, and spatial orientation information, the measurement of the performance indicator based upon at least one wireless signal from a base station of the cellular network, and adjusting at least one aspect of the cellular network in response to the measurement of the performance indicator, the location, and the spatial orientation information. Another example method may include a processing system of a mobile endpoint device having a processor receiving a wireless signal from a base station of a cellular network, capturing a measurement of a performance indicator based upon the wireless signal, recording a location and spatial orientation information, and transmitting to the cellular network the measurement of the performance indicator, the location, and the spatial orientation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Saeed Ghassemzadeh
  • Patent number: 11032744
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards overcoming a radio link interruption event, for example caused in the mmWave spectrum by a physical blockage between user equipment and a communications network distributed unit. Described is executing an inter-distributed unit beam switch in response to a radio link interruption trigger when no beams are available to support the user equipment from the distributed unit currently serving the user equipment. The inter-distributed unit beam switch may be performed by notifying a flow control process of the radio link interruption, which can switch to a different distributed unit such as selected by beam quality measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan
  • Publication number: 20210168892
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter provides techniques for detecting and correcting radio link failures based on the different usage scenarios. In one embodiment, a device is provided that comprises a processor, and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of various operations. These operations can comprise monitoring a quality of a radio link established between the device and a network device of a wireless communication network based on downlink transmissions received from the network device. These operations can further comprise determining whether the quality indicates the device and the network device are out-of-sync based on the quality being below a defined quality level, wherein the defined quality level varies based on a usage scenario associated with usage of the radio link by the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Salam Akoum, Ralf Bendlin, Xiaoyi Wang, Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Publication number: 20210168628
    Abstract: The disclosed technology is generally directed towards optimization and control of wireless networks based on monitoring and/or analytics data received at a radio access network (RAN) controller device in a split RAN protocol architecture. The RAN controller device processes the monitoring/analytics data and provides control information and/or optimization data, which can be policy data, to a central unit device that can configure the wireless network based on the control information and/or optimization data. The technology can facilitate optimization and configuration of mobility procedures including handovers and secondary cell group changes, optimization of carrier aggregation and dual connectivity procedures based on multiple metrics, and can facilitate centralized optimization of topology and route selection for integrated access and backhaul nodes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh, Milap Majmundar
  • Publication number: 20210160012
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter is directed towards scheduling and Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) operations by which nodes in a three party communication system can communicate. To schedule a data transmission from a transmitter node to receiver node(s), a local manager/scheduler node sends common downlink control information to the transmitter and receiver nodes. Via a scheduling request, the transmitting node can request the scheduling of the data transmission by the local manager node. The technology facilitates unicast and broadcast/multicast data transmissions; for a unicast data transmission, the scheduling request identifies the receiving node. The transmitting node can explicitly acknowledge reception of the downlink control information to the local manager node, or the local manager node can detect the data transmission, when it occurs, as an implicit acknowledgment that the common downlink control information was successfully received.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Ralf Bendlin, Xiaoyi Wang, Andrew Thornburg, Thomas Novlan
  • Publication number: 20210160940
    Abstract: A system that facilitates monitoring communication between a network node device and a communication device, wherein information is communicated by utilizing a first distribution unit (DU) node device comprising a first medium access control (MAC) layer component of the network node device and receiving condition information representative of a condition, wherein the condition indicates whether to add a second DU node device comprising a second MAC layer component to be utilized by the communication device. In response to determining that the condition indicates addition of the second DU node device, facilitating establishing a connection between the first MAC layer component of the first DU node device and the second MAC layer component of the second DU node device using a MAC interface and facilitating communication of control plane information and user plane information between the first MAC layer component and the second MAC layer component using the MAC interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan, Salam Akoum, Arunabha Ghosh
  • Patent number: 11019627
    Abstract: To facilitate signal alignment for an integrated access backhaul (IAB) node, a system can determine a subset of beams that can be used for communication transmissions. Based on a signal quality associated with the subset of beams, the system can indicate that the subset of beams is to be used for the communication transmission. Consequently, the subset of the beams or another subset of the subset of the beams can be utilized for the communication transmission based on the signal quality of the beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Salam Akoum, Milap Majmundar, Ralf Bendlin, Arunabha Ghosh, Thomas Novlan, Xiaoyi Wang
  • Patent number: 11006411
    Abstract: Concurrent mini-slot based and slot based transmissions to a single device are provided herein. A method can comprise transmitting, by a network device comprising a processor, first data via a first control channel indicating a slot based transmission for a device and second data via a second control channel indicating a mini-slot based transmission for the device. A first length of the slot based transmission can comprise a defined number of symbols and a second length of the mini-slot based transmission can comprise some of the defined number of symbols. The method can also comprise transmitting, by the network device, the slot based transmission and the mini-slot based transmission. The slot based transmission and the mini-slot based transmission can be logically separate transmissions that can be scheduled to be concurrent transmissions for the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P.
    Inventors: Milap Majmundar, Thomas Novlan, Arunabha Ghosh