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Nvidia patents using AI to prioritize phone connections

Nvidia describes a system where a base station uses neural networks to predict if an incoming connection request is for a background task or active use. If the AI predicts the request is for a background task, the system rejects it to save resources. If it predicts active use, the system sets up the connection immediately.

Why it mattersThis could help mobile networks handle traffic more efficiently by ignoring low-priority data requests, potentially improving speed for users who are actively using their devices.

In the filing’s own words

Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are described to predict priority of a connection request (e.g., a next connection request). For example, processing circuitry uses one or more neural networks to indicate priority of one or more next connection requests within one or more radio access network (RAN) networks. A base station of a UE device can use, perform, or otherwise execute the one or more neural networks to generate a prediction of what a next connection request will be.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method comprising: receiving historical connection request information corresponding to a user equipment device; generating, by one or more neural networks, a prediction of whether one or more next connection requests from the user equipment device will be a background or foreground request; rejecting the one or more next connection requests from the user equipment device when they are predicted to correspond to one or more background requests; and in response to receiving the one or more next connection requests, setting up a new connection request from the user equipment device to a base station when the prediction indicates the one or more next connection requests correspond to one or more foreground requests.

Facts

Company
Nvidia (NVIDIA Corporation)
Official title
NEURAL NETWORKS FOR INDICATING PRIORITY OF CONNECTION REQUESTS
Publication number
US20260270721A1
Application number
19072841
Filed
Mar 6, 2025
Published
Sep 10, 2026
Inventors
1
Claims
20

Classified under

H04W 24/02 Electricity & electronicsG06N 3/08 Physics & computingH04W 76/18 Electricity & electronics
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