US 12,490,178 B2
Facilitating radio access network on-demand dynamic bandwidth allocation in advanced networks
Eshrat Huda, Hillsborough, NJ (US); Moshiur Rahman, Marlboro, NJ (US); Prafulla Verma, Holmdel, NJ (US); David Lu, Irving, TX (US); and Russell Fischer, Bernardsville, NJ (US)
Assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed by AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US)
Filed on Aug. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/817,492.
Prior Publication US 2024/0049122 A1, Feb. 8, 2024
Int. Cl. H04W 4/00 (2018.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04W 28/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 48/18 (2013.01) [H04L 9/0852 (2013.01); H04W 28/16 (2013.01); H04L 5/0035 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
based on a first determination that available network slice resources fail to satisfy a criterion associated with a user equipment parameter associated with a user equipment, invoking, by a network equipment comprising a processor, a reallocation procedure, wherein the reallocation procedure comprises:
based on an inter-slice functionality being activated in a slicing parameterization, determining, by the network equipment, that at least one network slice of respective network slices of the available network slice resources has available unused resource blocks;
extracting, by the network equipment, a defined amount of resource blocks from one or more of the respective network slices of the available network slice resources; and
based on a second determination that, after the extracting, a sum of unused resource blocks of the respective network slices satisfy the criterion associated with the user equipment parameter, discontinuing, by the network equipment, the extracting of the defined amount of resource blocks.