US 12,250,579 B2
Measuring the performance of a wireless communications network
Yizhi Yao, Cupertino, CA (US); and Joey Chou, Cupertino, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/435,559
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 26, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/024871
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 1, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/198425, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 1, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/825,657, filed on Mar. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0150740 A1, May 12, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04L 43/06 (2022.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01); H04W 76/20 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 24/10 (2013.01) [H04L 43/06 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02); H04W 76/20 (2018.02)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, by a management module from one or more first network modules of a wireless communications network, measurement data regarding:
at least one of:
establishing one or more communications sessions on the wireless communications network by the one or more first network modules, or
modifying the one or more communications sessions on the wireless communications network by the one or more first network modules, and
least one of:
an assignment of network resources with respect to the one or more communications sessions, or
a modification to the assignment of network resources with respect to the one or more communications sessions;
wherein the one or more first network modules comprise one or more interworking function (IFW) modules, and
wherein the one or more communications sessions comprise one or more protocol data unit (PDU) sessions on the wireless communications network;
generating, by the management module, one or more performance metrics based on the measurement data; and
transmitting, by the management module, the one or more performance metrics to one or more second network modules of the wireless communications network.