MUMBAI, India, Aug. 8 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202411006862 A) filed by Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Tokyo, on Feb. 1, 2024, for 'deep sleep implementation in o-ran architecture.'
Inventor(s) include Veluchamy, Lingasamy; and Muhammad, Awn.
The application for the patent was published on Aug. 8, under issue no. 32/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "A method (700) is disclosed. The method includes receiving (702), by a Radio Unit (RU) a deep hibernate command to disable a plurality of functions associated with the RU from a RU-controller. The deep hibernate command comprises a predefined time duration for a deep hibernate timer. Further, the method includes disabling (704), by the RU, a Control Plane (C-Plane) function, a User Plane (U-Plane) function, and a Synchronization Plane (S-Plane) function associated with the RU and initiating the deep hibernate timer. Moreover, the method includes receiving (706), by the RU, a close-session command to suspend an established/active session between the RU and the RU controller, from the RU controller. Furthermore, in response to the received close-session command, the method includes disabling (708), by the RU, a Management Plane (M-Plane) associated with the RU and entering the deep hibernate mode."
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