Patents by Inventor Wenjie Zhao

Wenjie Zhao 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: 11323890
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, collecting and storing data about a communication environment including one or more communication networks wherein respective communication networks of the one or more communication networks employ respective communication technologies for communication with remote user devices in the communication environment, providing traffic forecasts of communication traffic, creating importance layers for potential build locations for equipment of the one or more communication networks, identifying desirable build locations among the potential build locations of the one or more communication networks based on the traffic forecasts of communication traffic and the importance layers, receiving user input defining planning parameters for the communication environment and determining respective target goal values for respective build options for the one or more communication networks based on the planning parameters, the identified desirable build locations and the
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kathleen Meier-Hellstern, Laurie Bigler, Arun Jotshi, Michael Orth, Phyllis Weiss, Ravi Raina, Wenjie Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220116800
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards automated cell parameter updates in cellular networks. A network automation platform architecture is disclosed which includes elements configured to automatically analyze, recalculate, and deploy cell parameters such as PCI and RSI parameters, for cells of a cellular communication network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Inventors: Nemmara Shankaranarayanan, Wei Yuan, Sarat Puthenpura, Slawomir Stawiarski, Shomik Pathak, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11297594
    Abstract: Locations of cells of a communication network can be estimated, determined, and validated. Cell location component (CLC) can analyze timing advance (TA) measurement data and/or location data associated with devices associated with a base station associated with one or more cells. CLC can estimate a first location of the base station, based on the TA measurement data and/or location data, to facilitate estimating the location of an associated cell. CLC can validate the estimated cell location or recorded cell location of the cell (recorded in a cell location pool) based on analysis of estimated cell location, recorded cell location, TA measurement data, and/or location data, and, based on the validation, can tag the cell location determination as accurate, acceptable, bad, or uncertain. CLC can request additional monitoring of a cell location determination tagged as uncertain, or investigation of a cell location determination tagged as bad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Ye Ge, Abraham George, Wenjie Zhao
  • Publication number: 20220097849
    Abstract: Provided is a tailstock type vertical take-off and landing unmanned aerial vehicle and a control method thereof. The unmanned aerial vehicle is mainly composed of a fuselage, wings, ailerons, empennages, an elevator, a rudder, an engine, an attitude adjustment nozzle, a landing gear, and the like. The wings are symmetrically arranged on both sides of the middle of the fuselage; the ailerons are hinged to the trailing edges of the wings on the both sides; the empennages are located at the tail of the fuselage, and a form of vertical empennages+horizontal empennages or V-shaped empennages can be used; the elevator and rudder are hinged to the trailing edges of the empennages; the engine is arranged at the tail of the fuselage for producing main thrust.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Wenjie ZHAO, Zheng CHEN, Xueming SHAO, Jun LI
  • Publication number: 20220104028
    Abstract: Facilitating analysis and resource planning for advanced heterogeneous networks (e.g., 5G, 6G, and beyond) is provided herein. A system is provided that includes a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can include determining that a resource is to be added to existing resources at a grid level of a heterogeneous network. Further, the operations can include selecting candidate locations for placement of the resource based on a coverage-driven objective and a capacity-driven objective defined for the heterogeneous network. The coverage-driven objective can be associated with a demand for services within the grid level of the heterogeneous network. The capacity-driven objective can be associated with demand growth within the grid level of the heterogeneous network. The resource can be a fifth generation millimeter wave node or a cloud radio access network node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Yuning Yang, Zhen Wan, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11240689
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards automated cell parameter updates in cellular networks. A network automation platform architecture is disclosed which includes elements configured to automatically analyze, recalculate, and deploy cell parameters such as PCI and RSI parameters, for cells of a cellular communication network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignees: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., AT&T Mobility II LLC
    Inventors: Nemmara Shankaranarayanan, Wei Yuan, Sarat Puthenpura, Slawomir Stawiarski, Shomik Pathak, Wenjie Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210410035
    Abstract: Predicting small cell capacity and coverage to facilitate offloading of macrocell capacity is presented herein. A system selects a group of candidate locations for placement of respective small cells to facilitate offloading, via the respective small cells, of traffic from respective macrocells corresponding to the candidate locations—the respective small cells including first transmission powers that are less than second transmission powers of the respective macrocells. Further, for each candidate location of the group of candidate locations, the system determines an estimated amount of traffic capacity of a small cell of the respective small cells that has been presumed to have been placed at the candidate location, and determines estimated signal strengths of respective signals that have been predicted to have been received from the small cell at respective portions of a grid of a defined signal coverage area corresponding to the candidate location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Inventors: Yuning Yang, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11212768
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitating operation of a system for implementing fifth generation (5G) or other next generation networks. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method described herein can include identifying, by a device comprising a processor, predicted resource usage of a first antenna covering a geographic zone. Further, the method can include selecting, by the device, a group of geographic siting locations within the geographic zone for potentially siting ones of a group of second antennas. In addition, selecting, by the device, a spatial arrangement in relation to the first antenna, of a subset of the group of geographic siting locations can occur, with a selected spatial arrangement including an arrangement to maintain the predicted resource usage in the condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yuning Yang, Jie Chen, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11206589
    Abstract: A device can receive, from a network node device, call trace event data relating to characteristics of a wireless communication session between the network node device and a user equipment. The device can sequence and combine the call trace event data for a period of the wireless communication session. The device can analyze the call trace event data to determine a category of network communication traffic transmitted via a communication channel between the network node device and the user equipment. In response to a determination that the network communication traffic comprises streaming video packets, the device can facilitate directing of network resources to be allocated to support the wireless communication session.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Wenjie Zhao, Ke Zhang, Huijing Yang, Huahui Wang
  • Patent number: 11202210
    Abstract: Facilitating model-driven automated cell allocation in advanced networks (e.g., 5G and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise determining, by a system comprising a processor, a solution to an integer programming problem based on input data associated with a network inventory and configuration data for network devices of a group of network devices included in a communications network. Also, the method can comprise determining, by the system, respective cell identities and respective root sequence index assignments for the network devices. Further, the method can comprise implementing, by the system, a deployment of the respective cell identities and respective root sequence index assignments at the network devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Wei Yuan, Yuning Yang, Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, Nemmara Shankaranarayanan, Sarat Puthenpura, Wenjie Zhao, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Publication number: 20210377905
    Abstract: Locations of cells of a communication network can be estimated, determined, and validated. Cell location component (CLC) can analyze timing advance (TA) measurement data and/or location data associated with devices associated with a base station associated with one or more cells. CLC can estimate a first location of the base station, based on the TA measurement data and/or location data, to facilitate estimating the location of an associated cell. CLC can validate the estimated cell location or recorded cell location of the cell (recorded in a cell location pool) based on analysis of estimated cell location, recorded cell location, TA measurement data, and/or location data, and, based on the validation, can tag the cell location determination as accurate, acceptable, bad, or uncertain. CLC can request additional monitoring of a cell location determination tagged as uncertain, or investigation of a cell location determination tagged as bad.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Ye Ge, Abraham George, Wenjie Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210377903
    Abstract: The technologies described herein are generally directed to facilitating operation of a system for implementing fifth generation (5G) or other next generation networks. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a method described herein can include identifying, by a device comprising a processor, predicted resource usage of a first antenna covering a geographic zone. Further, the method can include selecting, by the device, a group of geographic siting locations within the geographic zone for potentially siting ones of a group of second antennas. In addition, selecting, by the device, a spatial arrangement in relation to the first antenna, of a subset of the group of geographic siting locations can occur, with a selected spatial arrangement including an arrangement to maintain the predicted resource usage in the condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2020
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Yuning Yang, Jie Chen, Wenjie Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210364174
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a fabricated air conditioner wall and an operation method thereof, and the fabricated air conditioner wall included a precast wall and a heat pump system embedded in the precast wall. The components of the fabricated air conditioner wall are mass-produced and assembled in factories. The fabricated air conditioner wall mainly includes an indoor heat exchanger, a throttle valve, a condensate water tank, a four-way valve, a wall-buried pipe, a compressor, and an outdoor heat exchanger. In a cooling mode, condensate water is collected in the condensate water tank to cool the refrigerant. In winter, when the precast wall is illuminated by sunlight, a temperature of an outer wall is often higher than a temperature of outdoor air, and this solar energy can be reasonably utilized by the wall-buried pipe, thereby improving the heating effect of the air conditioner itself.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Inventors: Guoqing HE, Wenjie ZHAO
  • Patent number: 11176458
    Abstract: Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to the optimization of over-the-air (“OTA”) file distribution for connected cars based upon a heuristic scheduling algorithm. A schedule provided by the heuristic scheduling algorithm is designed to distribute OTA data flow to connected cars over the network (geographically) and over a scheduling time horizon (timely), and is capable of reducing the negative impact of OTA file updates on overall wireless network performance. This schedule is created based upon historical statistics associated with connected car driving patterns and simulations of connected car-specific OTA traffic over the network. By leveraging connected cars that connect to different cells at different times based upon driving patterns, the heuristic scheduling algorithm is effective in reducing OTA impact on the network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Sichong Guan, Wenjie Zhao, Laurie Bigler
  • Publication number: 20210241090
    Abstract: A processing system including at least one processor may obtain operational data from a radio access network (RAN), format the operational data into state information and reward information for a reinforcement learning agent (RLA), processing the state information and the reward information via the RLA, where the RLA comprises a plurality of sub-agents, each comprising a respective neural network, each of the neural networks encoding a respective policy for selecting at least one setting of at least one parameter of the RAN to increase a respective predicted reward in accordance with the state information, and where each neural network is updated in accordance with the reward information. The processing system may further determine settings for parameters of the RAN via the RLA, where the RLA determines the settings in accordance with selections for the settings via the plurality of sub-agents, and apply the plurality of settings to the RAN.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Jie Chen, Wenjie Zhao, Ganesh Krishnamurthi, Huahui Wang, Huijing Yang, Yu Chen
  • Publication number: 20210194774
    Abstract: A system includes a first network edge data collector, a first network edge key performance indicator (KPI) engine configured to operate on first data collected by the first network edge data collector, a KPI metrics manager in communication with the first network edge KPI engine, the KPI metrics manager controlling a KPI metric catalog and wherein the first network edge KPI engine determines first edge KPI metric using a metric algorithm from the KPI metric catalog on the first data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Huijing Yang, Jun Li, Hendra Tuty, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11032665
    Abstract: The described technology is generally directed towards user equipment (UE) geolocation. A machine learning model can be trained to estimate UE locations based on historical network communication data associated with the UEs. In order to train the machine learning model, known previous UE locations and corresponding historical network communication data can be provided to the machine learning model. A variety of other information, such as topographical information, can also be provided to the machine learning model. The machine learning model can be trained to predict the known previous UE locations based on the corresponding historical network communication data and any other provided information. Once it is trained, the machine learning model can be deployed to estimate real-time UE locations based on historical network communication data associated with the UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Abraham George, Ye Ge, Jie Chen, Wenjie Zhao
  • Patent number: 11012868
    Abstract: An architecture for providing indoor planning data that can be used to increase the density of mobility networks. A method can comprise receiving, via network equipment, resource exhaustion data indicative of radio spectrum usage within a determined bin representing a defined geographic area; receiving, via the network equipment, traffic data associated with the determined bin, wherein the traffic data indicates a volume of data flowing into the determined bin; receiving, via the network equipment, coverage data representing a quality of service metric data indicative of a determined reference signal receive power metric; and based on applying a ranking process to the resource exhaustion data, the traffic data, and the coverage data, generating a ranked list of structures, wherein a structure of the ranked list of structures includes the determined bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Yuning Yang, Wenjie Zhao
  • Publication number: 20210022013
    Abstract: Facilitating model-driven automated cell allocation in advanced networks (e.g., 5G and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a method can comprise determining, by a system comprising a processor, a solution to an integer programming problem based on input data associated with a network inventory and configuration data for network devices of a group of network devices included in a communications network. Also, the method can comprise determining, by the system, respective cell identities and respective root sequence index assignments for the network devices. Further, the method can comprise implementing, by the system, a deployment of the respective cell identities and respective root sequence index assignments at the network devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Inventors: Wei Yuan, Yuning Yang, Carlos Eduardo De Andrade, Nemmara Shankaranarayanan, Sarat Puthenpura, Wenjie Zhao, Slawomir Stawiarski
  • Publication number: 20210014698
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, collecting and storing data about a communication environment including one or more communication networks wherein respective communication networks of the one or more communication networks employ respective communication technologies for communication with remote user devices in the communication environment, providing traffic forecasts of communication traffic, creating importance layers for potential build locations for equipment of the one or more communication networks, identifying desirable build locations among the potential build locations of the one or more communication networks based on the traffic forecasts of communication traffic and the importance layers, receiving user input defining planning parameters for the communication environment and determining respective target goal values for respective build options for the one or more communication networks based on the planning parameters, the identified desirable build locations and the
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Applicant: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Kathleen Meier-Hellstern, Laurie Bigler, Arun Jotshi, Michael Orth, Phyllis Weiss, Ravi Raina, Wenjie Zhao