US Patent Issued to DISH WIRELESS on Sept. 1 for "In service upgrade of radio access network radio unit of a cellular network" (Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,726,404, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to DISH WIRELESS LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"In service upgrade of radio access network radio unit of a cellular network" was invented by Julio Armenta (Englewood, Colo.) and Gurpreet Sohi (Parker, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments of apparatus, systems and/or methods are described for providing an in-service upgrading of software for a radio access network (RAN) radio unit (RU). The method includes directing traffic from user equipment to the first RU and a second RU that both reside on a first sector of a cell site. A software upgrade is received at the first RU, and the amou...