ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,587, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Parallel Wireless Inc. (Nashua, N.H.).
"ENDC connectivity with virtualized eNBs" was invented by Mahendra Singh Rajput (Bangalore, India) and Anoop Gupta (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for establishing indirect and/or dual connectivity between virtualized 5G gENBs and virtualized 4G eNodeBs for dynamic X2 is disclosed. In one embodiment a method includes virtualizing, with a HetNet Gateway (HNG), BBUs and home eNodeBs over a standard S1 interface; establishing the HNG as a macro interfacing an EPC on 3GPP standard interfaces; communicating with an MME over the S1 interface f...