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Nvidia patents method to count active wireless devices in a network

Nvidia describes a system where a processor uses neural networks to analyze signals received by cell towers. The goal is to estimate how many wireless devices are actively communicating in the same time and frequency slot.

Why it mattersThis could help network providers manage traffic congestion by knowing exactly how many devices are competing for bandwidth at any given moment.

In the filing’s own words

Apparatuses, processors, computing systems, devices, non-transitory computer medium, and/or methods for using one or more neural networks to identify a number of wireless devices communicating with one or more base stations based, at least in part, on communication signals, data structures, or information received by one or more base stations. For example, a processor is to use one or more neural networks to identify a number of wireless devices communicating with one or more base stations based, at least in part, on communication signals received by the one or more base stations.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. One or more processors comprising: circuitry to: receive, at one or more base stations, one or more communication signals from a plurality of wireless devices that are communicating with the one or more base stations; and identify, using one or more neural networks and based at least on the one or more communication signals received by the one or more base stations, a quantity indicating a number of wireless devices of the plurality of wireless devices that are communicating with the one or more base stations within the same time slot and the same frequency band.

Facts

Company
Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
Official title
Network contention prediction
Patent number
US12757255B1
Application number
18393486
Filed
Dec 21, 2023
Granted
Oct 6, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
20

Classified under

H04W 74/0833 Electricity & electronicsH04L 41/16 Electricity & electronicsH04W 56/0045 Electricity & electronics
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