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Donald L. Mills

Examiner (ID: 17367, Phone: (571)272-3094 , Office: P/2462 )

Most Active Art Unit
2462
Art Unit(s)
2462, 2416, 2662, 2616
Total Applications
1181
Issued Applications
922
Pending Applications
99
Abandoned Applications
175

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/012687
Faulty multi-layer link restoration method and controller Sep 3, 2020 Issued
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17/005620
Communication device configured to switch wireless networks based on information received from a terminal device and to establish a wireless connection with the terminal device and non-transitory computer-readable medium for a terminal device establishing a wireless connection with a communication device Aug 27, 2020 Issued
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16/997207
Port assignment based on congestion and wireless device characteristics Aug 18, 2020 Issued
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16/994807
MULTIHOP NETWORK ROUTING Aug 16, 2020 Abandoned
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16/984049
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving downlink control information in a wireless communication system Aug 2, 2020 Issued
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16/944205
Uplink-aware monitoring of logical overlay tunnels Jul 30, 2020 Issued
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16/943548
Method and system for application-aware scheduling service Jul 29, 2020 Issued
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16/934794
Inter-cell fractional frequency reuse scheduler Jul 20, 2020 Issued
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16/916233
Transforming a multi-level hybrid hierarchical forwarding information base format Jun 29, 2020 Issued
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16/900136
Procedures to control beamforming Jun 11, 2020 Issued
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16/946021
Establishing a multicast flow path through a network using multicast resources currently associated with a different multicast flow path Jun 1, 2020 Issued
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16/890241
Distributed sub-controller permission for control of data-traffic flow within software-defined networking (SDN) mesh network Jun 1, 2020 Issued
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16/883583
Reduced traversal for consistent hashing for packet flow load balancing May 25, 2020 Issued
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16/868612
Apparatuses and methods for estimating throughput in accordance with quality of service prioritization and carrier aggregation to facilitate network resource dimensioning May 6, 2020 Issued
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16/852932
Initiator-based data-plane validation for segment routed, multiprotocol label switched (MPLS) networks Apr 19, 2020 Issued
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16/841165
Routing method, related device, and system Apr 5, 2020 Issued
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16/832124
Congestion aware multipathing based on network congestion notifications Mar 26, 2020 Issued
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17/310769
Method for allocating sidelink resource in wireless communication system Mar 9, 2020 Issued
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17/438053
UE, radio network node and methods performed therein for handling communication Mar 9, 2020 Issued
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17/437211
System and a method for routing traffic in an MPLS network Mar 4, 2020 Issued
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