IP Library Granted Patent US 11,894,620
Granted Patent B2
US 11,894,620 · App. 18/128,969 · Granted Feb 6, 2024

Cellular communication

Inventors: Bao Tran (Saratoga, CA); Ha Tran (Saratoga, CA)
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Patent No.
US 11,894,620
App. No.
18/128,969
Granted
Feb 6, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system includes a cellular transceiver to communicate with a predetermined target; one or more antennas coupled to the 5G or 6G transceiver each electrically or mechanically steerable to the predetermined target; a processor to control a directionality of the one or more antennas in communication with the predetermined target; and an edge processing module coupled to the processor and the one or more antennas to provide low-latency computation for the predetermined target.

Claims (24)

1. A system to perform edge processing for a predetermined target, comprising:

one or more cellular transceivers with one or more antennas that are electrically or mechanically steerable to the predetermined target;

a processor to control communication with the predetermined target; and

one or more edge processing modules coupled to the processor and the one or more antennas to provide low-latency computation for the predetermined target; and

a container to house the transceiver, processor running a virtual radio access network, and one or more edge processing modules, the container moveable to a location requiring increased edge processing.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the container fits requirement to be deployed without a construction permit.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is coupled to fiber optics cable to communicate with a cloud-based radio access network (RAN) or a remote RAN.

4. The system of claim 1 , comprising an antenna mast, wherein the antenna mast is inside the container or external to the container.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the edge processing module comprises at least a processor, a graphical processing unit (GPU), a neural network, a statistical engine, or a programmable logic device (PLD).

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the edge processing module and the antenna comprise one unit.

7. The system of claim 1 , comprising a cryogenic cooling system to cool the container.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the cellular transceiver comprises a 5G or 6G transceiver.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor coordinates beam sweeping by the one or more antennas with radio nodes or user equipment (UE) devices based upon service level agreement, performance requirement, traffic distribution data, networking requirements or prior beam sweeping history.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the beam sweeping is directed at a group of autonomous vehicles, a group of virtual reality devices, or a group of devices having a service agreement with a cellular provider.

11. The system of claim 1 , comprising a neural network coupled to a control plane, a management plane, or a data plane to optimize 5G or 6G parameters.

12. The system of claim 1 , comprising one or more cameras and sensors to capture security information.

13. The system of claim 1 , wherein the container includes edge sensors including LIDAR and RADAR.

14. The system of claim 1 , comprising a camera for individual identity identification.

15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the edge processing module streams data to the predetermined target to minimize loading the target.

16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the edge processing module shares workload with a core processing module located at a head-end and a cloud module located at a cloud data center, each processing module having increased latency and each having a processor, a graphical processing unit (GPU), a neural network, a statistical engine, or a programmable logic device (PLD).

17. The system of claim 1 , comprising an edge learning machine in the housing to provide local edge processing for Internet-of-Things (IOT) sensors with reduced off-chip memory access.

18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the edge learning machine uses pre-trained models and modifies the pre-trained models for a selected task.

19. The system of claim 1 , comprising a cellular device for a person crossing a street near a city light or street light, the cellular device emitting a person to vehicle (P2V) or a vehicle to person (V2P) safety message.

20. The system of claim 1 , comprising a cloud trained neural network whose network parameters are reduced before transferring to an edge neural network in the container.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 15, 2025
From: TRAN, BAO; TRAN, HA
To: FRACTAL NETWORKS LLC
Reel/Frame 073078/0826 →
Continuity (4)
Continuation 17508995 · Oct 23, 2021
Continuation 16576766 · Sep 20, 2019
Continuation 16404853 · May 7, 2019
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