Out-of-band monitoring and provisioning

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11546204-B2
Application number	US-202117190117-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 2, 2021
Priority date	Feb 16, 2018
Publication date	Jan 3, 2023
Grant date	Jan 3, 2023

Abstract

A method is disclosed for out-of-band data communication with a base station in a wireless network, the method comprising: determining, at a base station in a cellular access network, the base station configured to use a coordination server and to a first core network for providing network access to user equipments (UEs), an occurrence of an event regarding a communication problem related to the base station; sending an out-of-band message, via an embedded UE module coupled to the base station attached to a second core network, to the coordination server, based on the occurrence of the event at the base station; updating, at the coordination server, a stored status for the base station, thereby enabling a status of the base station to be updated at the coordination server via an out-of-band message.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
determining, at a base station in a cellular access network, the base station configured to use a coordination server and a first core network for providing network access to user equipments (UEs),-a requirement to send an out-of-band message;
performing license key monitoring by sending the out-of-band message, the out-of-bad message acting as a periodic heartbeat;
updating, a result of the license key monitoring,
thereby enabling a status of the license key to be updated via the out-of-band message.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the out-of-band message includes Global Positioning System (GPS) coordinates.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the out-of-band message comprises a Short Message Service (SMS) message and the out-of-band message is sent via an SMS gateway.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the out-of-band message includes a number of users of a license.

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the base station is an LTE or 5G base station and the out-of-band message is a 2G short message service (SMS) message.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the out-of-band message includes license information.

7. The method of claim 1 , further comprising using a hysteresis reporting window wherein the out-of-band message is only sent once every predetermined time period.

8. The method of claim 1 , further comprising using a Wi-Fi network to send the out-of-band message.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable code thereon for facilitating out-of-band monitoring and provisioning, the medium including instructions executable by one or more processors to perform operations, the operations comprising:
determining, at a base station in a cellular access network, the base station configured to use a coordination server and a first core network for providing network access to user equipments (UEs), a requirement to send an out-of-band message;
performing license key monitoring by sending the out-of-band message, the out-of-bad message acting as a periodic heartbeat;
updating a result of the license key monitoring,
thereby enabling a status of the license key to be updated via the out-of-band message.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 , the medium including instructions for performing operations wherein the out-of-band message comprises a Short Message Service (SMS) message.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein the out-of-band message includes a number of users of a license.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of claim 9 wherein the out-of-band message includes license Information.

Assignees

• Parallel Wireless Inc

Inventors

• Mishra Rajesh Kumar
• Rutherford Randy
• Garg Sumit
• Arora Jitender
• Jafarian Babak
• Simmonds Christopher

Classifications

• H04W4/14

  Short messaging services, e.g. short message services [SMS] or unstructured supplementary service data [USSD] · CPC title

• H04L41/06 Primary

  Management of faults, events, alarms or notifications · CPC title

• H04W84/042

  Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems · CPC title

• H04W24/08

  Testing, {supervising or monitoring} using real traffic · CPC title

• H04W88/08

  Access point devices · CPC title