Patent ID: 11876871
Assignee: VERIZON PATENT AND LICENSING INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
identifying, by a radio access network (RAN) controller, transmission information related to a performing of an over-the-air (OTA) update operation, wherein the transmission information identifies a location of targeted user equipment (UE) devices that are to receive an OTA update file via one or multiple serving cells;
determining, by the RAN controller, that a size of the OTA update file exceeds a threshold file size;
identifying, by the RAN controller based on the determining and a minimization of interference to non-targeted UE devices served by the one or multiple serving cells, an antenna beam pattern for use in delivering the OTA update file;
selecting, by the RAN controller and based on the antenna beam pattern, a network device from among candidate network devices for the performing of the OTA update operation;
receiving, by the network device, the OTA update file;
physically relocating the network device to a location proximate to a customer premises area in which the targeted UE devices are located, without physically accessing the customer premises area for a duration of the OTA update; and
transferring, by the network device, the OTA update file to the targeted UE devices according to the transmission information.