Patents by Inventor Xavier Costa Pérez
Xavier Costa Pérez 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).
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Patent number: 11984005Abstract: A method passively detects intrusion in an indoor environment. The method includes: establishing at least one communication channel between two millimeter (mm)-wave devices of a plurality of mm-wave devices deployed within the indoor environment, continuously monitoring communication channel parameters of the at least one communication channel, and triggering an intrusion detection process based on variations of the communication channel parameters.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Francesco Devoti, Xavier Costa-Perez
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Publication number: 20240096214Abstract: A method for classifying vehicles by means of a data processing system according to the nature of their vehicle drivers includes collecting driving data regarding vehicles driving in a predefined local area within a predefined time window, learning a driving policy of one or more vehicles in the local area from the driving data, generating or using a local predictor indicating a prediction of a definable driver behavior over a definable time horizon. The method further shares the local predictor with other vehicles in the local area to provide at least one combined predictor, redistributes the at least one combined predictor to vehicles in the local area, and locally classifies at least one of the vehicles based on the at least one combined predictor and/or the local predictor into a definable vehicle class for providing at least one local classification.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Antonio ALBANESE, Vincenzo SCIANCALEPORE, Xavier COSTA-PEREZ
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Patent number: 11917599Abstract: A communication apparatus for facilitating setting up of a network slice for service provision in a time division duplex system includes a receiver configured to receive a request for a network slice for at least one service. A processor is configured to specify, for the requested network slice, at least one of an uplink/downlink (UL/DL) configuration and a reconfiguration timescale. A transmitter is configured to notify at least one of a communication entity of a radio access network and a communication entity of a core network of the UL/DL configuration.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Konstantinos Samdanis, Rudraksh Shrivastava, Xavier Costa-Perez
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Patent number: 11915050Abstract: A method of managing task offloading to edge servers in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system includes receiving, by a task broker implemented at a host management level of the MEC system, a task offloading request from a UE application, analyzing, by the task broker, resource requirements of a task of the task offloading request and running a forecasting mechanism that determines whether the task offloading request will eventually be dropped or not by a system management level of the MEC system. The task broker, based on the determination of the forecasting mechanism, either rejects or provisionally admits the task offloading request.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Antonio Albanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-Perez
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Publication number: 20240004704Abstract: A method for operating a virtualized radio access point (vRAP) includes: providing a digital signal processor (DSP) pipeline including a number of DSP workers for execution of a plurality of threads of a physical layer (PHY) of the vRAP, wherein a thread of the plurality of threads includes a sequence of processing tasks, including at least one of processing an uplink, UL, subframe, performing UL and downlink, DL, resource scheduling and processing a DL subframe; and interlinking at least three dedicated DSP workers of the DSP pipeline in such a way that different processing tasks of the thread are executed in parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2020Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Andres GARCIA-SAAVEDRA, Xavier COSTA-PEREZ, Marco GRAMAGLIA, Albert BANCHS
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Publication number: 20230401094Abstract: A method of managing task offloading to edge servers in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system includes receiving, by a task broker implemented at a host management level of the MEC system, a task offloading request from a UE application, analyzing, by the task broker, resource requirements of a task of the task offloading request and running a forecasting mechanism that determines whether the task offloading request will eventually be dropped or not by a system management level of the MEC system. The task broker, based on the determination of the forecasting mechanism, either rejects or provisionally admits the task offloading request.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2021Publication date: December 14, 2023Inventors: Antonio Albanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-Perez
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Patent number: 11844100Abstract: A radio access network includes a processing system and one or more radio access points configured to broadcast over a radio band including one or more radio channels. Contextual data is acquired which is representative of at least one of: (i) a quality of the radio band and (ii) a quantity of data demanded by user equipment in communication with the one or more radio access points over the radio band. A compute policy and a radio policy are generated based on the acquired contextual data. Data transmissions for processing are assigned to computing resources of the processing system based on the compute policy. Data are scheduled for transmission over the radio band based on the radio policy. A modulation and coding scheme for the scheduled data transmissions is selected based on the radio policy.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Jose Ayala Romero, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xavier Costa Perez
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Publication number: 20230308889Abstract: A computer-implemented method is provided for optimizing positioning performance of a cellular network. The method includes: defining a target area; identifying a set (S) of base station deployment candidate sites (j) within the target area; obtaining, by executing a joint performance optimization routine that jointly optimizes network throughput and positioning performance, wherein a tuning parameter regulates a throughput-positioning ratio of the joint performance optimization routine, active candidate sites as a subset of the set (S) of base station deployment candidate sites (j); and determining the obtained active candidate sites as the sites at which base stations are to be deployed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 5, 2021Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Antonio ALBANESE, Vincenzo SCIANCALEPORE, Xavier COSTA-PEREZ
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Publication number: 20230217256Abstract: A method for dynamically allocating radio resources across a set of virtualized radio access points (vRAPs) in a virtual radio access network (vRAN) includes collecting contextual information across all vRAPs that share a common carrier bandwidth of a physical radio access point. The method also includes mapping, by a radio resource controller according to an internal mapping policy, the contextual information of the vRAPs into an allocation of vRAN slices to the vRAPs, wherein each vRAN slice comprises allocated computing resources and an allocated bandwidth part (BWP) of the common carrier bandwidth, the BWPs being orthogonal across the vRAN slices. The method also includes notifying the vRAPs of the allocated BWP.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 4, 2020Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Andres GARCIA-SAAVEDRA, Xavier COSTA-PEREZ
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Patent number: 11564200Abstract: A method for user localization in a cellular network includes receiving, by a receiver unit, Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulated Constant-Amplitude-Zero-Autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequences generated and transmitted in a Doppler-delay domain by a transmitter unit. The method further includes estimating, by the receiver unit, Doppler shift and/or relative speed between the transmitter unit and the receiver unit by filtering the received OTFS modulated CAZAC sequences.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2020Date of Patent: January 24, 2023Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Antonio Albanese, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-Perez
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Publication number: 20220393940Abstract: The invention relates to a method for configuring a user equipment, comprising the steps of a) accessing user related information, preferably account information, on the user equipment, b) transmitting the user related information to a dedicated configuration server, c) matching the user related information to a specific configuration information, d) upon matching, transmitting the configuration information to the user equipment, e) configuring the user equipment with the configuration information, and wherein initiation of the steps a)-e) is performed by a one-touch-client and wherein the configuration server is provided as a one-touch-server. The invention also relates to a system for configuring a user equipment.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 12, 2022Publication date: December 8, 2022Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Xavier COSTA PEREZ, Arnau VIVES GUASCH
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Patent number: 11522888Abstract: A method for anomaly detection and troubleshooting in a network includes parsing a network service descriptor (NSD) describing a network service (NS) to be deployed in the network. Monitoring data including time series of service-level metrics and resource-level metrics of network functions (NFs) of the NS are received from different domains of the network. Representations of the time series from the different domains are learned with a common dimensionality. An NS signature of the NS is computed as a cross-correlation matrix comprising cross-correlations between the service-level metrics and the resource-level metrics of the NFs. Embeddings of the NS signature are learned using a model and determining a reconstruction error of the model. It is determined whether the NS is anomalous based on the reconstruction error of the model. The NS is identified as a target for the troubleshooting in a case that the NS was determined to be anomalous.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Josep Xavier Salvat Lozano, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xi Li, Xavier Costa Perez
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Publication number: 20220369279Abstract: A method for user localization in a cellular network includes receiving, by a receiver unit, Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) modulated Constant-Amplitude-Zero-Autocorrelation (CAZAC) sequences generated and transmitted in a Doppler-delay domain by a transmitter unit. The method further includes estimating, by the receiver unit, Doppler shift and/or relative speed between the transmitter unit and the receiver unit by filtering the received OTFS modulated CAZAC sequences.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2020Publication date: November 17, 2022Inventors: Antonio ALBANESE, Vincenzo SCIANCALEPORE, Xavier COSTA- PEREZ
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Patent number: 11500888Abstract: A method for anomaly detection of cloud services based on mining time-evolving graphs includes steps of receiving tracing data for a plurality of micro-services of the deployed cloud service, wherein the tracing data defines relationships between the plurality of micro-services of the deployed cloud service at a plurality of different time intervals, computing a functional graph based on the tracing data for each of the plurality of different time intervals, wherein nodes of each functional graph include the plurality of micro-services and wherein links between the nodes represent relationships between the plurality of micro-services, comparing the functional graphs for each of the plurality of time intervals to determine an anomaly score for each of the functional graphs, and detecting a presence of one or more anomalies based on the anomaly scores.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBHInventors: Josep Xavier Salvat Lozano, Andres Garcia-Saavedra, Xi Li, Xavier Costa Perez
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Publication number: 20220342719Abstract: A method for managing radio and computing resources of a virtualized radio access network, vRAN (40), wherein the vRAN (40) comprises a number of virtualized radio access points, vRAPs (11), sharing a common pool of central processing units, CPUs (12), enhances efficiency and practicability of vRAN resource management. The method comprises dividing, per vRAP (11), a L1 layer processing pipeline (30) into at least one main processing pipelines (50) and into a number of subordinate processing pipelines (51, 52), and coordinating the execution of the pipelines (50, 51, 52) across multiple vRAPs (11). The coordinating includes allocating tasks of the main processing pipelines (50) to dedicated CPUs (12a), and allocating tasks of the subordinate processing pipelines (51, 52) to shared CPUs (12b).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2019Publication date: October 27, 2022Inventors: Andres GARCIA-SAAVEDRA, Xavier COSTA-PEREZ
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Publication number: 20220321198Abstract: A method for establishing a direct communication using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a reconfiguration intelligent surface (RIS) includes configuring RIS parameters based on compensating for undesired oscillations of a position and an orientation associated with the UAV. A signal reflection associated with a beam signal is steered to a target area based on the RIS parameters and by the RIS of the UAV. The signal beam is from a transmitter.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 8, 2021Publication date: October 6, 2022Inventors: Francesco Devoti, Placido Mursia, Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Xavier Costa-Perez
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Patent number: 11451438Abstract: The invention relates to a method for configuring a user equipment, comprising the steps of a) accessing user related information, preferably account information, on the user equipment, b) transmitting the user related information to a dedicated configuration server, c) matching the user related information to a specific configuration information, d) upon matching, transmitting the configuration information to the user equipment, e) configuring the user equipment with the configuration information, and wherein initiation of the steps a)-e) is performed by a one-touch-client and wherein the configuration server is provided as a one-touch-server. The invention also relates to a system for configuring a user equipment.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Xavier Costa Perez, Arnau Vives Guasch
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Publication number: 20220277631Abstract: A method passively detects intrusion in an indoor environment. The method includes: establishing at least one communication channel between two millimeter (mm)-wave devices of a plurality of mm-wave devices deployed within the indoor environment, continuously monitoring communication channel parameters of the at least one communication channel, and triggering an intrusion detection process based on variations of the communication channel parameters.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Vincenzo SCIANCALEPORE, Francesco DEVOTI, Xavier COSTA- PEREZ
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Patent number: 11349775Abstract: A method for enabling dynamic resource ownership transfer among network slice tenants includes acquiring an initial share of resources, admitting a plurality of tenants to a private blockchain platform, initiating a resource transaction process within a consortium of peer nodes, and validating proposed transactions in a distributed and automatized way. An infrastructure provider (InP) provides a mobile network that is virtually divided into a set of slices, and an intermediate broker (IB) regulates transactions, executed via a blockchain, by which resources are distributed between tenants. A smart contract (SC) running within the blockchain implements resource auditing among tenants and enforces IB-specific policies in managing transfers of the resources between the tenants. A consensus algorithm validates the transactions, and the infrastructure provider (InP) processes validated transactions and enforces transaction directives in the resource allocation process.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Lanfranco Zanzi, Antonio Albanese, Xavier Costa Perez
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Patent number: 11251537Abstract: Systems and methods for dynamically controlling connections between a plurality of servers in a data center, where the data center includes at least a first reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) and a first RIS controller (RISC) configured to control physical propagation settings of physical propagation elements of the first RIS, wherein each server of the plurality of servers includes or is communicably connected with a wireless connection component enabling communication via directive wireless propagation via the physical propagation elements of the first RIS. A controller device pushes a set of one or more RIS configurations to the RIS and a set of one or more transceiver beamforming configurations to the wireless connection components and jointly determines an optimal transceiver beamforming configuration and an optimal RIS configuration using the connection feedback information.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2020Date of Patent: February 15, 2022Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Vincenzo Sciancalepore, Andres Garcia Saavedra, Xavier Costa Perez