Granted Patent B2

US 12,732,882 · App. 18/366,204 · Granted Sep 8, 2026

Inventors: Sylvestre Demonget (Millburn, NJ); David Albert Rossetti (Randolph, NJ); Madhusudan Mandyam Bheemarayan (Hillsborough, NJ); Robert Walley (Canton, GA)

Assignee: Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

H04W36/304H04W36/324

Abstract

Claims (98)

1 . A device comprising:

a processor configured to:

receive first network parameters and first performance indicators of a first access station in a first radio access network (RAN) included in a first cellular network;

receive second network parameters and second performance indicators of a second access station in a second radio access network (RAN) included in a second cellular network;

determine whether to steer a User Equipment device (UE) wirelessly connected to the first access station, from the first access station toward the second access station, based on the first network parameters, first performance indicators, the second network parameters, and the second performance indicators; and

based on the determination, modify one or more of:

the first network parameters of the first access station; and

the second network parameters of the second access station,

wherein the first cellular network is different from the second cellular network.

2 . The device of claim 1 , wherein when determining whether to steer the UE, the processor is to do at least one of:

determine whether to steer the UE based on mobility;

determine whether to steer the UE based on load balancing;

determine whether to steer the UE based on carrier aggregation (CA)/Dual Connectivity (DC); or

map a Quality-of-Service Class identifier (QCI) or Fifth Generation Qualify-of-Service identifier (5QI) used at the first access station to another QCI or 5QI to be used at the second access station.

3 . The device of claim 1 , wherein when modifying one or more of the first network parameters of the first access station and the second network parameters of the second access station, the processor is to:

instruct a device to modify at least the mobility parameters at the first access station to force the UE to use particular frequency band at the second access station; or

instruct the device to modify at least the mobility parameters at the first access station to force the UE to remain connected to the first access station;

wherein the mobility parameters include idle mode cell reselection and connected mode handover attributes.

4 . The device of claim 1 , wherein when receiving the first network parameters, the processor is to:

receive the first network parameters of the first access station via a first Operation Administration and Maintenance system (OAM) coupled to the first access station; and

store the first network parameters.

5 . The device of claim 4 , wherein the second access station is coupled to a second OAM, and wherein the processor is to:

provide the first network parameters to the second OAM.

6 . The device of claim 5 , wherein when determining whether to steer the UE, the processor is to:

evaluate loads on the first access station and the second access station per public subscribers and private subscribers or per subscribers of each of one or more Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).

7 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the processor is further to:

apply a filter to or aggregate the first performance indicators to obtain indicators that comply with privacy rules; and

provide the filtered or aggregated first performance indicators to the second OAM.

8 . The device of claim 5 , wherein the processor is further configured to:

expose one or more of the second network parameters of the second access station; and

receive input for submitting changes to the second OAM for at least one of the second network parameters of the second access station; and

effect the submitted changes to the second access station if automatically approved by the second OAM or manually approved by an administrator of the second OAM.

9 . The device of claim 1 , wherein when determining whether to steer the UE, the processor is to:

apply a Self-Organizing Network (SON) algorithm or a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm to process the first network parameters, the first performance indicators, the second network parameters, and the second performance indicators.

10 . The device of claim 1 , wherein when the first network parameters and performance indicators include object structure and nomenclature proprietary to a vendor, the processor is configured to identify network parameters and performance indicators as inputs for the device,

wherein the identified network parameters include at least one of:

topology information;

carrier frequency information;

neighboring/dual-connectivity relations; or

operating parameters, which govern mobility, load balancing, and Quality-of-Service (QOS), obtained from parameters proprietary to the vendor; and

wherein the identified performance indicators include at least one of:

load information;

resource utilization information;

a handover success rate;

a dropped call rate;

a throughput; or

latency.

11 . A method comprising:

receiving first network parameters and first performance indicators of a first access station in a first radio access network (RAN) included in a first cellular network;

receiving second network parameters and second performance indicators of a second access station in a second radio access network (RAN) included in a second cellular network;

determining whether to steer a User Equipment device (UE) wirelessly connected to the first access station, from the first access station toward the second access station, based on the first network parameters, first performance indicators, the second network parameters, and

based on the determination, modifying one or more of:

the first network parameters of the first access station; and

the second network parameters of the second access station,

wherein the first cellular network is different from the second cellular network.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein determining whether to steer the UE comprises at least one of:

determining whether to steer the UE based on mobility;

determine whether to steer the UE based on load balancing;

determining whether to steer the UE based on carrier aggregation (CA)/Dual Connectivity (DC); or

mapping a Quality-of-Service Class identifier (QCI) or Fifth Generation Qualify-of-Service identifier (5QI) used at the first access station to another QCI or 5QI to be used at the second access station.

13 . The method of claim 11 , wherein modifying one or more of the first network parameters of the first access station and the second network parameters includes:

instructing a device to modify at least the mobility parameters at the first access station to force the UE to use particular frequency band at the second access station; or

instructing the device to modify at least the mobility parameters at the first access station to cause the UE to remain connected to the first access station;

wherein the mobility parameters include idle mode cell reselection and connected mode handover attributes.

14 . The method of claim 11 , wherein receiving the first network parameters includes:

receiving the first network parameters of the first access station via a first Operation Administration and Maintenance system (OAM) coupled to the first access station; and

store the first network parameters.

15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the second access station is coupled to a second OAM, and wherein the method further comprises:

providing the first network parameters to the second OAM.

16 . The method of claim 15 , wherein determining to steer the UE includes:

evaluating loads on the first access station and the second access station per public subscribers and private subscribers or per subscribers of each of one or more Mobile Network Operators (MNOs).

17 . The method of claim 15 , further comprising:

applying a filter to or aggregate the first performance indicators to obtain indicators that comply with privacy rules; and

providing the filtered or aggregated first performance indicators to the second OAM.

18 . The method of claim 11 , wherein determining whether to steer the UE comprises:

applying a Self-Organizing Network (SON) algorithm or a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm to process the at least first network parameters and first performance indicators and the at least second network parameters and second performance indicators.

19 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the first network parameters and performance indicators include object structure and nomenclature proprietary to a vendor, and wherein the method further comprises identifying network parameters and performance indicators as inputs for the device,

wherein the identified network parameters include at least one of:

topology information;

carrier frequency information;

neighboring/dual-connectivity relations; or

operating parameters, which govern mobility, load balancing, and Quality-of-Service (QOS), obtained from parameters proprietary to the vendor; and

wherein the identified performance indicators include at least one of:

load information;

resource utilization information;

a handover success rate;

a dropped call rate;

a throughput; or

latency.

20 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising one or more processor-executable instructions, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to:

Receive first network parameters and first performance indicators of a first access station in a first radio access network (RAN) included in a first cellular network;

Receive second network parameters and second performance indicators of a second access station in a second radio access network (RAN) included in a second cellular network;

determine whether to steer a User Equipment device (UE) wirelessly connected to the first access station, from the first access station toward the second access station, based on the at least first and second network parameters and first and second performance indicators; and

determining whether to steer a User Equipment device (UE) wirelessly connected to the first access station, from the first access station toward the second access station, based on the first network parameters, first performance indicators, the second network parameters, and

based on the determination, modify one or more of:

the first network parameters of the first access station; and

the second network parameters of the second access station,

wherein the first cellular network is different from the second cellular network.

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