Patent ID: 11917039
Assignee: COMMSCOPE TECHNOLOGIES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A program product comprising a processor readable medium on which program instructions are embodied, wherein the program instructions are configured, when executed by at least one programmable processor, to cause the at least one programmable processor to:
at least one of: determine characteristics of a radio and receive the characteristics of the radio, wherein the radio uses a first input/output (I/O) data protocol and a first message protocol;
select at least one translation library corresponding to at least one of determined characteristics of the radio and the received characteristics of the radio, wherein a base station comprises the radio and a virtual baseband unit;
generate configuration parameters that describe capabilities of the radio, and cause transmission of such configuration parameters to the virtual baseband unit using a second I/O data protocol and a second message protocol, wherein the first I/O data protocol and the second I/O data protocol are incompatible;
convert at least one of: (a) baseband data, in an uplink path, in at least one of a user plane, a control plane, a synchronization plane, and a management plane into the second I/O data protocol used by the virtual baseband unit, and (b) baseband data, in a downlink path, in the second I/O data protocol into data in at least one of: the user plane, the control plane, the synchronization plane, and the management plane, in the first I/O protocol; and
convert using the selected at least one translation library at least one of: a message in the first message protocol, transmitted from the radio to the virtual baseband unit, to the second message protocol, and a message in the second message protocol, transmitted from the virtual baseband unit to the radio, to the first message protocol, wherein the first message protocol and the second message protocol are incompatible.