US 12,170,951 B1
Radio exposure function for telecommunications networks
Marouane Balmakhtar, Fairfax, VA (US); and Lyle Walter Paczkowski, Mission Hills, KS (US)
Assigned to T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed by T-Mobile USA, Inc., Bellevue, WA (US)
Filed on Jun. 3, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/732,289.
Application 18/732,289 is a continuation of application No. 18/506,998, filed on Nov. 10, 2023, granted, now 12,022,383.
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 48/18 (2009.01); H04W 88/12 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 48/16 (2013.01) [H04W 48/18 (2013.01); H04W 88/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by a telecommunications system, the method comprising:
receiving, by a programmable radio exposure function, a mode selection request from an application executing on a user equipment;
selecting an operational mode from real-time and near-real-time modes of operation of a radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller based on the request;
allocating, by an application programming interface exposed by the radio exposure function, a RAN resource to the user equipment based on the operational mode; and
analyzing, by a machine learning module embedded within the radio exposure function, operational data, received from the user equipment and at least one network function of the telecommunications system, for operating the RAN resource; and
providing access to a RAN function of the telecommunications system to the application based on the RAN resource.