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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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17/881140
Method and apparatus for determining reference point in wireless communication system Aug 3, 2022 Issued
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17/816943
User equipment and method performed by the same in wireless communication system Aug 1, 2022 Issued
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17/816216
Systems and methods for scalable validation of multiple paths in a network using segment routing Jul 28, 2022 Issued
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17/872976
Method and apparatus for signaling aperiodic channel state indication reference signals for LTE operation Jul 24, 2022 Issued
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17/855187
Information centric network routing Jun 29, 2022 Issued
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17/809691
Multi-level coding for uplink transmissions Jun 28, 2022 Issued
Array ( [id] => 18867054 [patent_doc_number] => 20230421491 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2023-12-28 [patent_title] => Enhanced Multicast Traceroute to Receive Inline Failure Reply [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/808652 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2022-06-24 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 5163 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 69 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17808652 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/808652
Enhanced multicast traceroute to receive inline failure reply Jun 23, 2022 Issued
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17/848088
Crossbar multipathing for multicast performance in tiled switches Jun 22, 2022 Issued
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18/571659
Method performed by user equipment, and user equipment Jun 16, 2022 Issued
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18/014299
METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTING MULTIPATH FLOWS IN A DIRECT INTERCONNECT NETWORK Jun 7, 2022 Pending
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17/750491
Wireless communications apparatus and methods May 22, 2022 Issued
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17/741759
Method and apparatus for determining bottleneck link May 10, 2022 Issued
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18/559568
BUFFER STATUS REPORT OVERHEAD ESTIMATION May 9, 2022 Pending
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17/740822
Method and apparatus for transmitting uplink channel in wireless communication system May 9, 2022 Issued
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17/740021
Network entities for managing distribution of slice service level agreement information in a communication network May 8, 2022 Issued
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17/737585
Executing multipath communication May 4, 2022 Issued
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17/660852
LATENCY REDUCTION AND RANGE EXTENSION SYSTEM FOR RADIO NETWORKS Apr 26, 2022 Abandoned
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17/726650
Ethernet virtual private network fast reroute triggered designated forwarder election Apr 21, 2022 Issued
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17/719415
Distribution of clients across a network Apr 12, 2022 Issued
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17/718779
Method and system for application-aware scheduling service Apr 11, 2022 Issued
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