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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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17/717712
Platform agnostic gateway for efficient data transfer between systems Apr 10, 2022 Issued
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17/715077
Graceful switchover for multi-chassis trunking Apr 6, 2022 Issued
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17/711571
Method and device for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system Mar 31, 2022 Issued
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18/849878
TERMINAL AND COMMUNICATION METHOD Mar 27, 2022 Pending
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17/704658
EDGE COMPUTING OVER DISAGGREGATED RADIO ACCESS NETWORK FUNCTIONS Mar 24, 2022 Pending
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17/701982
Sequencing of labeled packets Mar 22, 2022 Issued
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18/548965
Method and apparatus for handling collision Mar 21, 2022 Issued
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17/699237
Method and system for network traffic diversion Mar 20, 2022 Issued
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17/697354
Out-band physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resources for sidelink unlicensed spectrum Mar 16, 2022 Issued
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18/729468
TECHNIQUES FOR CONFIGURING COMMUNICATIONS BASED ON UNIFIED TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR STATES Mar 14, 2022 Pending
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17/688994
Systems and methods for automatically adjusting a time-based anti-replay window size Mar 7, 2022 Issued
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17/687821
Ultimate regional fallback path for hierarchical SD-WAN Mar 6, 2022 Issued
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17/683996
Data transmission method, network device, and terminal device Feb 28, 2022 Issued
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17/678078
Communication control apparatus, communication control system, and communication control method Feb 22, 2022 Issued
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18/282716
A Method of Processing an Incoming Service Request by a First Network Function, NF, Instance, as well as the Corresponding Network Functions Feb 21, 2022 Pending
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18/287937
GATE CONTROLLED FRAME OR PACKET REPLICATION AND ELIMINATION FUNCTION IN CLOUD ENVIRONMENT Feb 10, 2022 Pending
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17/666662
Feedback information transmission method and apparatus Feb 7, 2022 Issued
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17/592215
Initiator-based data-plane validation for segment routed, multiprotocol label switched (MPLS) networks Feb 2, 2022 Issued
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17/584765
Systems and methods for optimal routing in sites with multiple routers for high availability wide area networks Jan 25, 2022 Issued
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18/729340
TECHNIQUES TO CONFIGURE A RECONFIGURABLE INTELLIGENT SURFACE DEVICE Jan 16, 2022 Pending
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