IP Library Granted Patent US 12,207,337
Granted Patent B2
US 12,207,337 · App. 18/427,520 · Granted Jan 21, 2025

User equipment network radio link state management for ambient electromagnetic power harvesting chip reader applications and devices

Inventors: Lyle Walter Paczkowski (Mission Hills, KS); Marouane Balmakhtar (Fairfax, VA); Galip Murat Karabulut (Vienna, VA)
Assignee: T-Mobile Innovations LLC
H04W76/28H04W76/27H04W4/80
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Patent No.
US 12,207,337
App. No.
18/427,520
Granted
Jan 21, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

User equipment (UE) network radio link state management for ambient electromagnetic power harvesting chip (AEPH) reader applications and devices is provided. In some embodiments, radio link state management services are provided that may be engaged by a UE that can wirelessly communicate both with a wireless telecommunications network, and an AEPH chip. Embodiments may include a method that determines when an AEPH chip communication event is pending, suspends a UE connection state of at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link in response to the determining when the AEPH chip communication event is pending, performs the AEPH chip communication event; and releases suspension of the UE connection state of the at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link.

Claims (57)

1. A system for user equipment network radio link state management, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media storing computer-usable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

communicate between a first user equipment (UE) and a radio access network of a telecommunications network through a UE radio link, the UE radio link comprising one or more data channels;

determine when an ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chip communication event is pending based on data from a trustlet executing in a trusted execution environment of the first UE;

suspend a UE connection state of at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link in response to the determining when the AEPH chip communication event is pending;

perform the AEPH chip communication event; and

release suspension of the UE connection state of the at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link.

2. The system of claim 1 , the one or more processors further to:

perform the AEPH chip communication event during a network interrupt duration, wherein the UE connection state remains suspended for the network interrupt duration; and

release suspension of the UE connection state after an expiration of the network interrupt duration.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the expiration of the network interrupt duration is based on one or both of a time duration or an event.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the trustlet is activated at least based on determining that the AEPH chip communication event is pending.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the AEPH chip communication event comprises communicating with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) chip.

6. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:

a radio module circuit that includes at least a radio frequency (RF) transmit (TX) path and an RF receive path, wherein the one or more processors further to:

control the radio module circuit to communicate with the radio access network using uplink (UL) radio frequency (RF) signals and downlink (DL) RF signals; and

control the radio module circuit to perform the AEPH chip communication event to transmit one or more interrogation signals to an AEPH chip and receive one or more response signals from the AEPH chip.

7. The system of claim 1 , the one or more processors further to:

query a ledger using the at least one data channel after release of suspension of the UE connection state, in response to information received by the first UE from the AEPH chip communication event.

8. A system for user equipment network radio link state management, the system comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable media storing computer-usable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:

communicate between a first user equipment (UE) and a radio access network of a telecommunications network through a UE radio link, the UE radio link comprising one or more data channels;

determine when an ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chip communication event is pending;

suspend a UE connection state of at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link in response to the determining when the AEPH chip communication event is pending;

establish communication between the first UE and the radio access network using a second UE radio link in response to suspending the UE connection state of at least one data channel;

perform the AEPH chip communication event; and

release suspension of the UE connection state of the at least one data channel of the one or more data channels of the UE radio link upon completion of the AEPH chip communication event.

9. The system of claim 8 , the one or more processors further to suspend the UE connection state of the at least one data channel by communicating a network interrupt request to a network function of an operator core network of the telecommunications network.

10. The system of claim 8 , the one or more processors further

perform the AEPH chip communication event during a network interrupt duration, wherein the UE connection state remains suspended for the network interrupt duration; and

release suspension of the UE connection state after an expiration of the network interrupt duration.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the second UE radio link operates on a different frequency and/or frequency band than those used to perform the AEPH chip communication event.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the AEPH chip communication event at least includes:

transmission of an interrogation signal to an AEPH chip; and

reception of a response signal from the AEPH chip.

13. The system of claim 8 , the one or more processors further to:

query a ledger using the at least one data channel after release of suspension of the UE connection state, in response to information received by the first UE from the AEPH chip communication event.

14. The system of claim 8 , the one or more processors further to:

determine when the AEPH chip communication event is pending based on data from a trustlet executing in a trusted execution environment of the first UE.

15. A telecommunications network, the network comprising:

at least one radio access network (RAN) coupled to an operator core network of a telecommunications network, wherein a first UE communicates with the operator core network via the at least one RAN through a UE radio link comprising one or more data channels; and

one or more processors further to:

suspend a first UE connection state of at least one data channel of the one or more data channels for the first UE in response to a wireless network interrupt request from the first UE;

determine when a proximity between the first UE and a second UE is within a threshold, wherein the second UE communicates with the operator core network via the at least one RAN through a second UE radio link;

when the proximity is within the threshold, suspend a second UE connection state of a data channel of the second UE radio link for the second UE in response to the wireless network interrupt request from the first UE; and

release suspension of the first UE connection state and the second UE connection state based on an expiration of a wireless network interrupt duration associated with the wireless network interrupt request.

16. The network of claim 15 , the one or more processors further to:

determine when an ambient electromagnetic power harvesting (AEPH) chip communication event is pending; and

perform the AEPH chip communication event during the wireless network interrupt duration.

17. The network of claim 16 , wherein the AEPH chip communication event includes:

transmission of an interrogation signal to an AEPH chip; and

reception of a response signal from the AEPH chip.

18. The network of claim 15 , wherein the expiration of the network interrupt duration is based on one or both of a time duration or an event.

19. The network of claim 15 , wherein the operator core network comprises a network function configured to initiate suspension of the first UE connection state in response to the wireless network interrupt request.

20. The network of claim 15 , wherein the operator core network comprises a network function configured to determine the proximity between the first UE and the second UE and initiate suspension of the second UE connection state in response to the proximity being within the threshold.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded May 16, 2024
From: PACZKOWSKI, LYLE WALTER; BALMAKHTAR, MAROUANE; KARABULUT, GALIP MURAT
To: T-MOBILE INNOVATIONS LLC
Reel/Frame 067437/0160 →
Continuity (2)
Continuation 18056217 · Nov 16, 2022
Related Publication 20240244709A1 · Jul 18, 2024
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