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US 7107049
System and method for emulating mobile networks and related device
Current assignee: TIM SpA
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Patent Overview — US 7,107,049 B2
Title: "System and method for emulating mobile networks and related device"
Assignee/Applicant: Originally Telecom Italia SpA; Google Patents lists current assignee as TIM SpA (assignee listings noted as potentially inaccurate).
Key dates: Priority date 2001-09-28; filing date 2002-09-26; publication of application US2004/0209612A1 on 2004-10-21; grant/publication 2006-09-12; anticipated expiration 2022-09-26. Legal status: "Expired - Fee Related."
Inventors: Barberis, Bernasconi, Bessone, Bizzarri, Ferrato, Franceschini, Magnani, Nicastro.
Purpose: The invention addresses limits of software emulation tools tied to statistical simulators, which cannot provide punctual, instant-by-instant representation of ongoing network phenomena such as channel or time-slot availability. Its stated aim is to emulate the effects of mobile-network behavior in terms of what a user perceives, independently of the analysis means (simulation tools or field measures), and to provide an emulation device that autonomously emulates terminal–network information exchange.
Plain-language scope: The system (10) includes a user terminal (15), a network terminal (16), a control terminal (14), and an emulation device/emulator (12) connected to each. The emulator intercepts and controls data/command exchange between user and network terminals, dynamically emulating mobile-network behavior. Internally it has a control block (20) with CPU/ROM/RAM/serial interface, and a data block (30) with user-side and network-side Ethernet interfaces, DMA logic, and partitioned data RAM (user RAM 33a, network RAM 33b) that can exchange traffic data independently of the CPU. Processes include uplink, downlink, and control; the control process receives uplink and downlink command files from the control terminal. A described example command file (100) represents a GSM-GPRS network, illustrating FDMA/TDMA slot allocation, nominal rates (e.g., 9.05 kbit/s CS-1, 13.4 kbit/s CS-2), and slot sharing among up to eight users.
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US7107049/en
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