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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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17/572256
Method and apparatus for monitoring radio link in wireless communication system Jan 9, 2022 Issued
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17/565672
Method and apparatus for receiving wake-up signal in wireless communication system Dec 29, 2021 Issued
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17/563402
Inter-Cell Fractional Frequency Reuse Scheduler Dec 27, 2021 Abandoned
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18/556102
CONTROL DEVICE AND CONTROL METHOD, AND DEVICE AND PROCESSING METHOD Dec 26, 2021 Pending
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17/561854
Methods and arrangements for reverse synchronization on a wireless medium Dec 23, 2021 Issued
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18/720289
METHOD, DEVICE AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM OF COMMUNICATION Dec 14, 2021 Pending
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17/549183
Network routing method and apparatus Dec 12, 2021 Issued
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17/544744
Enhanced SD-WAN path quality measurement and selection Dec 6, 2021 Issued
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17/541437
Load sharing method and network device Dec 2, 2021 Issued
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17/538091
Systems and methods for data plane validation of multiple paths in a network Nov 29, 2021 Issued
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17/539048
Inter-cell fractional frequency reuse scheduler Nov 29, 2021 Issued
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17/538374
System and method for distribution of routes in a telecommunications network Nov 29, 2021 Issued
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18/709167
METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR CONTROL INFORMATION SIGNALING FOR SMART REPEATERS IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS Nov 24, 2021 Pending
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17/533050
Systems and methods for synchronous control of HARQ configurations Nov 21, 2021 Issued
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17/532201
Medium access control schedulers for wireless communication Nov 21, 2021 Issued
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17/518679
Network routing computation for completing partially-configured route Nov 3, 2021 Issued
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17/517365
Method and apparatus for controlling transmission for lossless packet forwarding Nov 1, 2021 Issued
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17/517639
Network-aware load balancing Nov 1, 2021 Issued
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17/451514
Method and network device for managing MAC table, storage medium, and program product Oct 19, 2021 Issued
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17/496477
METHOD FOR ADJUSTING A TOTAL BANDWIDTH FOR A NETWORK DEVICE Oct 6, 2021 Abandoned
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