Patents by Inventor Ulises Olvera-Hernandez

Ulises Olvera-Hernandez 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: 20240107602
    Abstract: Procedures, methods, architectures, apparatuses, systems, devices, and computer program products for maintaining service continuity in 5G telecommunication networks for wireless transmit/receive units (WTRUs) when the WTRUs switch between various connectivity scenarios, e.g., switching from direct connectivity between two WTRUs to connectivity between the two WTRUs via a gateway, are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: FILIPE CONCEICAO, Alain MOURAD, Ulises OLVERA-HERNANDEZ
  • Patent number: 11937317
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for multiple radio access technology (multi-RAT) access mode operation for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) are disclosed. A WTRU and a network may enable a multi-RAT access mode of operation based on at least one of WTRU subscription, a service agreement of the WTRU, a roaming status of the WTRU, a selected access point name (APN), an Internet protocol (IP) flow class, a subscriber profile identity for the WTRU, requested quality of service, or a proximity indication indicating proximity to a cell supporting multi-RAT access mode. The WTRU may send a capability indication of support of multi-RAT access to a network, wherein the multi-RAT access mode is enabled based on the capability indication. A partial handover of bearers may be performed. In performing the handover, the target cell is determined based on a priority rule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Pascal Adjakple, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Peter S. Wang, Kai Liu, Saad Ahmad
  • Publication number: 20240089727
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), comprising a memory, and a processor to execute instructions from the memory, wherein the processor is configured to access a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Access Network (AN), establish a link with a Non-3GPP Interworking Function (N3IWF) via the non-3GPP AN, request information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN), receive information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN, and determine whether to register with the 3GPP RAN based upon the network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN. Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for sending information about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP RAN to a N3IWF, establishing a link between a WTRU operating on a non-3GPP AN and the N3IWF via the non-3GPP AN, and sending information from the N3IWF to the WTRU about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Jesus Bernardos, Ping-Heng Kuo, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Alain Mourad, Charles Turyagyenda
  • Publication number: 20240073687
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods and apparatuses for providing access to a network slice in a communication system. In an embodiment, a network server that implements a Control Plane (CP) Network Function (NF) may receive a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message from a wireless transmit and receive unit (WTRU). The NAS message comprises a Mobility Management (MM) message for registration and a Session Management (SM) messages for a specific service provided by the network slice. After selecting the network slice, the network server may transmit the SM message to another CP NF in the network slice to establish a communication link between the WTRU and the network slice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmoud Watfa, Behrouz Aghili, Saad Ahmad, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20240057214
    Abstract: Current wireless networks do not allow machine type communication (MTC) devices to have long discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles or sleep lengths. A long DRX cycle may allow MTC systems and devices to operate with much longer DRX/Sleep cycles/periods. This may facilitate the MTC operations for infrequent system access or infrequent system reaching (e.g. paged once in a week) with no or low mobility and may allow MTC devices to sleep for a long time with low power consumption.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Ghyslain Pelletier, Peter S. Wang, Kai Liu, Guanzhou Wang, Marian Rudolf, Samian Kaur, Michael F. Starsinic
  • Publication number: 20240056504
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses are described herein for accessing hardware resources in distributed computing environments, Remote hardware (e.g., hardware resources) may be accessed, for example, using interfaces (e.g., device driver interfaces). Remote hardware (e.g., within a terminal and/or on the edge) may be accessed, for example, to enable computationally intensive applications (e.g., multi-player games, augmented/virtual reality) to be run on terminal devices, A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may enable emote hardware access.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Renan Krishna, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Magurawalage Chathura Madhusanka Sarathchandra
  • Patent number: 11903075
    Abstract: A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive from a network resource allocation information for device to device (D2D) communication. The WTRU may select, from the received resource allocation information for a transmission time interval (TTI), resources for a D2D channel. The WTRU may transmit, with use of the selected resources, data directly to another WTRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ravikumar V. Pragada, Saad Ahmad, Balaji Raghothaman, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Zhuorong Deng, Pascal M. Adjakple, Gregory S. Sternberg, Guanzhou Wang, Alexander Reznik
  • Publication number: 20240049132
    Abstract: Procedures, mechanisms, methods, and techniques are provided that trigger power saving mode (PSM) functionality in the at least one wireless transmit receive units, group of WTRUs or subset of the group of WTRUs. The trigger may be in response to an application layer request to set one or more predetermined PSM settings, wherein the trigger originates from one or more application servers (APs) directed to a core network by way of an interface such as an SCEF that may be included on a device (e.g., a gateway, computing device, and/or the like) and may be configured for enabling the application server to request enabling and disabling PSM functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmoud Watfa, Guanzhou Wang, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Behrouz Aghili, Pascal Adjakple, Dimitrios Karampatsis, Saad Ahmad, Amir Helmy
  • Publication number: 20240023048
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for managing a connection state of a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) that is in Mobile Initiated Communication Only (MICO) mode are disclosed. One representative method may include the WTRU obtaining information indicating that the WTRU is to initiate registration prior to sending a Service Request (SR). The representative method may further include the WTRU sending a registration request in accordance with the obtained information and sending a SR after registering with a Network Entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad, Behrouz Aghili, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20240022966
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for enabling and configuring a time-sensitive networking (TSN) centralized network/distributed user model in a wireless communications system are provided. For example, a method for wireless communications includes receiving configuration information related to forwarding reservation information to a centralized network configuration (CNC) entity, receiving one or more user requests based on the received configuration information, determining reservation information from the received one or more user requests, and sending, based on the received configuration information, the reservation information to the CNC entity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Antonio de la Oliva, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Robert Gazda
  • Patent number: 11877151
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods and apparatuses for providing access to a network slice in a communication system. In an embodiment, a network server that implements a Control Plane (CP) Network Function (NF) may receive a Non-Access Stratum (NAS) message from a wireless transmit and receive unit (WTRU). The NAS message comprises a Mobility Management (MM) message for registration and a Session Management (SM) messages for a specific service provided by the network slice. After selecting the network slice, the network server may transmit the SM message to another CP NF in the network slice to establish a communication link between the WTRU and the network slice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmoud Watfa, Behrouz Aghili, Saad Ahmad, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez
  • Patent number: 11864273
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), comprising a memory, and a processor to execute instructions from the memory, wherein the processor is configured to access a non-3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Access Network (AN), establish a link with a Non-3GPP Interworking Function (N3IWF) via the non-3GPP AN, request information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP Radio Access Network (RAN), receive information from the N3IWF about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN, and determine whether to register with the 3GPP RAN based upon the network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN. Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described for sending information about network slicing capabilities of a 3GPP RAN to a N3IWF, establishing a link between a WTRU operating on a non-3GPP AN and the N3IWF via the non-3GPP AN, and sending information from the N3IWF to the WTRU about network slicing capabilities of the 3GPP RAN.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlos Jesus Bernardos, Ping-Heng Kuo, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Alain Mourad, Charles Turyagyenda
  • Patent number: 11856639
    Abstract: Current wireless networks do not allow machine type communication (MTC) devices to have long discontinuous reception (DRX) cycles or sleep lengths. A long DRX cycle may allow MTC systems and devices to operate with much longer DRX/Sleep cycles/periods. This may facilitate the MTC operations for infrequent system access or infrequent system reaching (e.g. paged once in a week) with no or low mobility and may allow MTC devices to sleep for a long time with low power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Ghyslain Pelletier, Peter S. Wang, Kai Liu, Guanzhou Wang, Marian Rudolf, Samian Kaur, Michael F. Starsinic
  • Patent number: 11856495
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for priority handling for ProSe Communications. A relay wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may act as a relay between the network and the remote WTRU. The relay WTRU may receive a temporary mobile group identity (TMGI) request message from a remote WTRU. The TMGI request message may include a TMGI, a ProSe per packet priority level associated with the TMGI, etc. The relay WTRU may receive an evolved multimedia broadcast multicast service (eMBMS) data packet from a network. The eMBMS may be associated with the TMGI. The relay WTRU may apply the received ProSe per packet priority level associated with the TMGI to the received eMBMS data packet. The relay WTRU may relay the eMBMS data packet to the remote WTRU based on the ProSe per packet priority level. The relay WTRU may forward the eMBMS data packet to the remote WTRU via a PC5 interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Mahmoud Watfa, Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad, Amir Helmy, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20230413212
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described herein for a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) activating and/or deactivating user equipment (UE)/WTRU-provided data network (UPDN). The WTRU may advertise availability of UPDN a (e.g., 5G) network. A UPDN software application may be transferred onto and/or installed on a WTRU to implement a UPDN. A WTRU may be authenticated and/or authorized to a host for a given UPDN instance, UPDN installation and/or update may be configured if an authentication fails because a UPDN software application is not up-to-date and/or not installed. A WTRU may provide information to a service provider for installing UPDN and/or update UPDN software. Control connectivity and/or path selection for UPDN may be configured by one or more WTRU route selection policy (URSP) rules. A UPDN profile and/or UPDN subscription profile may be configured in a system (e.g., 5G system (5GS)). UPDN may be provisioned in a (e.g., 5G) network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Xavier De Foy, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Saad Ahmad, Shamim Rahman
  • Publication number: 20230413049
    Abstract: A method implemented in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) of provisioning the WTRU for communication in a temporary local network includes transmitting, to an onboarding network, information regarding a capability of the WTRU to communicate with the temporary local network. Configuration information for temporary local network provisioning is received from the onboarding network. A message identifying a provisioning configuration for use by the WTRU with the temporary local network is received from the onboarding network, using the received configuration information. A message is sent to the temporary local network using the provisioning configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventors: Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad, Alec Brusilovsky, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Xiaoyan Shi
  • Publication number: 20230396582
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems, architectures and interfaces for a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) performing a client-side edge resolution function (cERF) are provided. A method may include any of: transmitting, to a network-side edge application resolver (nEAR), a signal requesting an IP address identifying (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Applicant: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Michel Roy, Debashish Purkayastha, Robert Gazda, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez
  • Publication number: 20230379985
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, etc., directed to support provisioning domains (PvDs) in 5G networks are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a network entity running a policy control function (PCF), may send to a wireless receive and transmit unit (WTRU) at least one WTRU route selection policy (URSP) rule associated with, for example, PvD descriptors. For example, URSP rules may be configured e.g., as part of the subscription profile and PvD descriptors may be configured e.g., as part of a network-wide configuration. An application function (AF) may use a network exposure function (NEF) application programming interface (API) to access and, for example, update, e.g. through any of NEF and PCF, any of URSP rules and PvD descriptors. According to embodiments, a WTRU may participate in a data network access identifier (DNAI) selection by including a PvD ID in, for example, PDU session establishment messages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Xavier De Foy, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Saad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11812499
    Abstract: Techniques may be used for restricted direct discovery in proximity services (ProSe). A ProSe function may receive from a discovery wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) a restricted ProSe Application identity (ID) of an application located at the discoverer WTRU requesting ProSe discovery. The ProSe function may derive a first and second ProSe codes for the discoveree WTRU and discoverer WTRU, and provide the ProSe codes to the discoverer and/or discoveree WTRUs. A ProSe application server may receive a revocation message from an announcing WTRU indicating a revoked WTRU. The ProSe application server may provide a ProSe discovery WTRU ID for the revoked WTRU to a ProSe Function. The ProSe function may instruct the announcing WTRU to stop announcing a ProSe code known by the revoked WTRU, and may provide a new ProSe code to at least one WTRU authorized to discover the announcing WTRU.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: INTERDIGITAL PATENT HOLDINGS, INC.
    Inventors: Dimitrios Karampatsis, Mahmoud Watfa, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez, Saad Ahmad
  • Patent number: 11812401
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus and systems for managing a connection state of a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU) that is in Mobile Initiated Communication Only (MICO) mode are disclosed. One representative method may include the WTRU obtaining information indicating that the WTRU is to initiate registration prior to sending a Service Request (SR). The representative method may further include the WTRU sending a registration request in accordance with the obtained information and sending a SR after registering with a Network Entity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: InterDigital Patent Holdings, Inc.
    Inventors: Guanzhou Wang, Saad Ahmad, Behrouz Aghili, Ulises Olvera-Hernandez