US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Oct. 7 for "Load estimation and balancing in virtualized radio access networks" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,283, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Load estimation and balancing in virtualized radio access networks" was invented by Daehyeok Kim (Redmond, Wash.), Anuj Kalia (San Francisco) and Xenofon Foukas (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a first transmission time interval (TTI) of a vRAN, data traffic between a radio unit (RU) of a cellular network and a first vRAN instance of the vRAN is monitored. The first vRAN instance executes on a first server of the vRAN and the first vRAN instance is configured to perform PHY layer processing and L2 processing of t...