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Google patents method for grouping data packets to manage network quality

Patent drawing from the official filing.

This filing describes a way for a cell tower to handle data traffic by grouping multiple data packets together. The tower's control system receives instructions from the main network on how to treat this group and then passes those instructions to the part of the tower that actually sends the data.

Why it mattersThis is a technical update to how mobile networks manage data flow, which may help ensure specific types of traffic get the right priority, but it is unlikely to be visible to everyday users.

In the filing’s own words

A radio access network (RAN) node configures protocol data unit (PDU) quality of service (QOS). To this end, the RAN node receives ( 502), at a control plane (CP) entity of the RAN node from a core network (CN), first QoS parameters for a PDU set, for delivery to a UE; and provides ( 506), by the CP entity to a user plane (UP) entity of the RAN node, second QoS parameters based on the first QoS parameters.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method in a radio access network (RAN) node for configuring protocol data unit (PDU) quality of service (QOS), the method comprising: receiving, at a control plane (CP) entity of the RAN node from a core network (CN), first QoS parameters for a PDU set to be delivered to a UE; and providing, by the CP entity to a user plane (UP) entity of the RAN node, second QoS parameters based on the first QoS parameters.

Facts

Company: Google (GOOGLE LLC)
Official title: ENABLING PROTOCOL DATA UNIT SET-BASED DATA COMMUNICATION
Publication number: US20260313437A1
Application number: 19481845
Filed: May 5, 2024
Published: Oct 8, 2026
Inventors: 1
Claims: 20

Classified under

H04W 28/0268 Electricity & electronicsH04W 28/0236 Electricity & electronicsH04W 72/543 Electricity & electronics

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