Granted Patent B2

US 12,672,197 · App. 18/364,931 · Granted Jun 30, 2026

Inventors: Sunil Kumar (Bangalore, IN); Thiruvenkatam Muthukrishnan (Bangalore, IN)

Assignee: Dell Products L.P.

H04W76/25H04W76/30

Abstract

Claims (34)

1 . A system, comprising:

at least one processor; and

at least one memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

communicating broadband cellular communications with a base station;

receiving an indication from the base station to perform iterations of transmitting a keep alive report periodicity signal according to a packet data convergence protocol protocol data unit format; and

initiating the iterations of transmitting the keep alive report periodicity signal to the base station, wherein, responsive to the initiating, a user equipment release transaction is to be initiated for the system based on a lack of a threshold number of consecutive keep alive report periodicity signals of the keep alive report periodicity signals being received, wherein responsive to the iterations, a bearer context release request is caused to be sent from a first node of the base station that terminates in a U-plane of the base station to a second node of the base station that terminates in a C-plane of the base station.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein, responsive to the initiating, the user equipment release transaction is to be initiated for the system from a distributed unit of the base station.

3 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the operations further comprise:

sending a status of the system based on a first keep alive report periodicity signal of the iterations of transmitting the keep alive report periodicity signal, wherein a reserved bit of the first keep alive report periodicity signal indicates whether the system is online or offline.

4 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is communicatively coupled to an access and mobility management function component as part of the broadband cellular communications, and wherein, responsive to the initiating, a user equipment context release is to be initiated with the access and mobility management function component.

5 . The system of claim 1 , wherein respective protocol data unit types of respective keep alive report periodicity signals of the iterations of transmitting the keep alive report periodicity signal indicate that the respective keep alive report periodicity signals are keep alive report periodicity signals.

6 . The system of claim 1 , wherein initiating the iterations comprises:

initiating the iterations of transmitting the keep alive report periodicity signal to the base station based on establishing a data radio bearer with a radio link control unacknowledged mode.

7 . The system of claim 6 , wherein the data radio bearer is established using a radio resource control reconfiguration control signalling message that is received from the base station and that indicates transporting application data using a user datagram protocol.

8 . A method, comprising:

facilitating, by a system comprising at least one processor, broadband cellular communications with a base station;

receiving, by the system and from the base station, an instruction to perform iterations of transmitting a keep alive report periodicity signal according to a packet data convergence protocol protocol data unit format, wherein the keep alive report periodicity signal corresponds to the broadband cellular communications; and

initiating, by the system, iterations of transmitting the keep alive report periodicity signal to the base station, wherein, responsive to the initiating, a user equipment release transaction is to be initiated for the system based on a lack of a threshold number of consecutive keep alive report periodicity signals of the keep alive report periodicity signals being received, wherein responsive to the iterations, a bearer context release request is caused to be sent from a first node of the base station that terminates in a U-plane of the base station to a second node of the base station that terminates in a C-plane of the base station.

9 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the threshold number of consecutive keep alive report periodicity signals is configurable.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the threshold number of consecutive keep alive report periodicity signals is configurable based on user configuration data that is associated with a user account.

11 . The method of claim 8 , further comprising:

sending, by the system, a status of the system based on a first keep alive report periodicity signal of the iterations of the keep alive report periodicity signal, wherein a reserved bit of the first keep alive report periodicity signal indicates whether the system is online or offline.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein respective keep alive report periodicity signals of the iterations of the keep alive report periodicity signal comprise a protocol data unit.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein respective protocol data unit types of respective keep alive report periodicity signals of the iterations of the keep alive report periodicity signal indicate that the respective keep alive report periodicity signals are keep alive report periodicity signals.

14 . The method of claim 8 , wherein, responsive to the initiating, a counter is to be reset based on a keep alive report periodicity signal of the keep alive report periodicity signals being received.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the keep alive report periodicity signal is to be dropped at a packet data convergence protocol stack of the base station.

16 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions that, in response to execution, cause a system comprising at least one processor to facilitate performance of operations, comprising:

at least one of sending or receiving broadband cellular communications to or from a base station, respectively;

receiving an instruction from the base station to send periodic keep alive report periodicity signals to the base station, wherein the keep alive report periodicity signals correspond to the broadband cellular communications; and

iterating a process of transmitting the keep alive report periodicity signal to the base station, wherein, responsive to the iterating, a user equipment release transaction is caused to be initiated for the system based on a lack of a threshold number of consecutive keep alive report periodicity signals of the keep alive report periodicity signals being received, wherein responsive to the iterating, a bearer context release request is caused to be sent from a first node of the base station that terminates in a U-plane of the base station to a second node of the base station that terminates in a C-plane of the base station.

17 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein, responsive to the iterating, a release of the system is caused to occur by a radio resource control of the second node.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein, responsive to the iterating, a release of radio resources associated with the system is caused to occur by a radio resource control of the second node.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the user equipment release transaction indicates a reason for releasing the system, and wherein the reason indicates a radio network layer or a radio link failure.

20 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein, responsive to the initiating, the user equipment release transaction is to be initiated for the system from a distributed unit of the base station.

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