Patent ID: 11924310
Assignee: PARALLEL WIRELESS, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. A telecommunications system for Xx/Xn interface communication, comprising:
an Xx/Xn gateway for communicating with, and coupled to, a first radio access network (RAN) and a second RAN, wherein at least one of the first RAN and the second RAN comprise a 5G RAN, the Xx/Xn gateway further comprising an interpreter,
wherein the Xx/Xn gateway is configured to:
receive messages from the first RAN according to a first Xx/Xn protocol;
map the received messages to a second Xx/Xn protocol for transmission to the second RAN;
maintain operational state of at least one of the first RAN or the second RAN at the Xx/Xn gateway;
update the maintained operational state of the first RAN or the second RAN at the Xx/Xn gateway;
interwork, at the Xx/Xn gateway, the first Xx/Xn message from the first Xx/Xn protocol to the second Xx/Xn protocol; and
associate the first Xx/Xn protocol with the first RAN and the second Xx/Xn protocol with the second RAN, based on a stored list of supported Xx/Xn protocol versions for the first RAN and the second RAN, wherein at least one of the supported Xx/Xn protocol versions is a list of supported individual information elements (IEs) and protocol commands, or an Xx/Xn protocol version number.