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Eric M. Thomas

Examiner (ID: 671, Phone: (571)272-1699 , Office: P/3714 )

Most Active Art Unit
3715
Art Unit(s)
3715, 3714
Total Applications
877
Issued Applications
545
Pending Applications
93
Abandoned Applications
248

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/656273
TRANSPORT BLOCK SIZE DETERMINATION FOR EQUAL SIZE CODE BLOCKS Mar 23, 2022 Abandoned
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18/284650
Methods and WTRU for positioning with reduced latency in wireless communication systems Mar 21, 2022 Issued
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17/688264
Measurement processing method and apparatus Mar 6, 2022 Issued
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17/687770
Method and a system for accessing a wireless channel in a dense environment Mar 6, 2022 Issued
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17/688509
Terminal apparatus for executing two-step random access procedure, base station apparatus, and control method Mar 6, 2022 Issued
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17/688014
Control of communication devices in a wireless network Mar 6, 2022 Issued
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17/682509
Random access method, user equipment, base station, and random access system Feb 27, 2022 Issued
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17/679778
Method and apparatus for allocating a pilot signal adapted to the channel characteristics Feb 23, 2022 Issued
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17/673334
Application session persistence across dynamic media access control (MAC) address rotations Feb 15, 2022 Issued
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17/672991
Systems and methods for application-aware dynamic slicing in radio access network (RAN) Feb 15, 2022 Issued
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17/672055
Smart channel switching method based on history channel data, and terminal device and readable storage medium thereof Feb 14, 2022 Issued
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17/670540
Synthesized clock synchronization between network devices Feb 13, 2022 Issued
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18/274866
Handling of Quality-of-Experience (QOE) Measurement Status Jan 30, 2022 Pending
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17/647805
Techniques for demodulation reference signal based signal-to-noise ratio for demodulation processing Jan 11, 2022 Issued
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17/574243
Communication method, communication apparatus, terminal device, and network device Jan 11, 2022 Issued
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18/722622
CROSS-LINK INTERFERENCE MEASUREMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM Dec 23, 2021 Pending
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18/268473
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TRANSMITTING AND RECEIVING PAGING Dec 22, 2021 Pending
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17/554595
Telecommunications network coverage optimization system Dec 16, 2021 Issued
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17/552081
Methods and devices for determining spatial relation, user equipment and network device Dec 14, 2021 Issued
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17/644506
LTE cell-specific reference signal interference handling Dec 14, 2021 Issued
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