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Daniel L. Branson

Examiner (ID: 3963, Phone: (571)270-3812 , Office: P/1616 )

Most Active Art Unit
1616
Art Unit(s)
1616
Total Applications
476
Issued Applications
205
Pending Applications
3
Abandoned Applications
267

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/131027
METHOD, APPARATUS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION OF SENSOR DATA AT THE EDGE OR NEAR-EDGE OF A NETWORK Dec 21, 2020 Abandoned
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17/117789
Communication method, paging method, device, and system Dec 9, 2020 Issued
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17/117107
5G OpenRAN controller Dec 8, 2020 Issued
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17/091243
Communication Method and Network Device Nov 5, 2020 Abandoned
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17/090169
Grouping users by pre-shared key (PSK) in hospitality Nov 4, 2020 Issued
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17/593836
Multi-subscriber identity module capability signaling framework Oct 21, 2020 Issued
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17/073400
COMMUNICATION DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION METHOD Oct 18, 2020 Abandoned
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17/772115
Terminal and communication method Sep 27, 2020 Issued
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17/024881
Server and method of controlling the same Sep 17, 2020 Issued
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17/023489
Prepaid digital delivery service Sep 16, 2020 Issued
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17/024134
ACCESS POINT AUTHENTICATION BASED ON A DIGITAL CERTIFICATE Sep 16, 2020 Abandoned
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17/021851
Device agnostic remote eSIM provisioning Sep 14, 2020 Issued
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17/022077
4G/5G core interworking Sep 14, 2020 Issued
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17/008560
Trust mode switching for wireless access points Aug 30, 2020 Issued
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17/005557
Power supply method and electronic device therefor Aug 27, 2020 Issued
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16/994521
Apparatus, system and method to signal and execute conditional handover in a cellular network Aug 13, 2020 Issued
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16/929664
Criteria based method for cell channel allocation based on authorization from an external system Jul 14, 2020 Issued
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16/907756
Facilitating a transmission power dependent resource reservation protocol in advanced networks Jun 21, 2020 Issued
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16/896847
System and method for ring suppression Jun 8, 2020 Issued
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16/879844
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONTROLLING A MOBILE DEVICE COVER May 20, 2020 Abandoned
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