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Donald L. Mills

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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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18/087612
MOBILE MEDICINE COMMUNICATION PLATFORM AND METHODS AND USES THEREOF Dec 21, 2022 Pending
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18/063757
COMMUNICATION METHOD, APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM Dec 8, 2022 Pending
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18/071949
Wireless communication device, communication control method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium Nov 29, 2022 Issued
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18/054627
Communication apparatus, control method for communication apparatus, and storage medium Nov 10, 2022 Issued
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17/982699
Congestion-aware traffic management using historical load data and real-time cell mapping Nov 7, 2022 Issued
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17/982014
Systems and method of QoS delivery for parameters for restricted TWT Nov 6, 2022 Issued
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17/969406
Method, device, and system for deploying network slice Oct 18, 2022 Issued
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17/959938
EXTREMELY HIGH THROUGHPUT AND HIGH FREQUENCY BANDWIDTH SUPPORT INDICATION Oct 3, 2022 Issued
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17/957992
SELF-CHECKING DIAGNOSTICS FRAMEWORK FOR MULTICAST LOGIC IN A PACKET FORWARDING DEVICE Sep 29, 2022 Pending
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17/931605
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING SECURITY ISSUES DURING A NETWORK ATTACHMENT Sep 12, 2022 Pending
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17/943970
System for and method of access protocol Sep 12, 2022 Issued
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17/929864
Systems and methods for exposing custom per flow descriptor attributes Sep 5, 2022 Issued
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17/903615
Distributed sub-controller permission for control of data-traffic flow within software-defined networking (SDN) mesh network Sep 5, 2022 Issued
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17/898313
Elastic scheduling Aug 28, 2022 Issued
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17/890651
Forwarding entry generation method, packet sending method, network device, and system Aug 17, 2022 Issued
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17/820458
Sounding reference signal resource set determination for downlink control information Aug 16, 2022 Issued
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17/888120
Techniques for normalizing narrow beam channel access parameters based on bandwidth in wireless communications Aug 14, 2022 Issued
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17/886296
Regulation method intended to resorb congestion on a mesh powerline and radio communication network Aug 10, 2022 Issued
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17/886408
Non-contiguous resource blocks for bandwidth part configuration Aug 10, 2022 Issued
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17/884867
Power saving techniques for network-controlled repeaters Aug 9, 2022 Issued
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