US Patent Issued to RAKUTEN MOBILE on June 30 for "System and method for O-cloud node shutdown in idle times to save energy consumption" (Japanese, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,059, issued on June 30, was assigned to RAKUTEN MOBILE INC. (Tokyo).

"System and method for O-cloud node shutdown in idle times to save energy consumption" was invented by Mohit Luthra (Singapore), Pankaj Shete (Tokyo) and Awn Muhammad (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for shutting down an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) Cloud (O-Cloud) node are provided. The method includes: receiving, by a FOCOM, a first request to drain an O-Cloud node, the first request being received from a user terminal or from a Non-Real-Time (Non-RT) RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) based on analysis of O2 telemetry data; transmittin...