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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

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18/565709
Method and Network Node for Interference Mitigation in a TDD Wireless Communication Network May 31, 2021 Pending
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17/325432
Data transmission method and apparatus for reducing reconfiguration delay in link failure May 19, 2021 Issued
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17/995039
Beam blocking detection and reporting May 19, 2021 Issued
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18/551519
UPDATING A TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR (TCI) STATE OR CHANGING A PATH LOSS REFERENCE SIGNAL (PL-RS) BASED ON A REFERENCE SIGNAL RECEIVED WITHIN A THRESHOLD TIME PERIOD May 10, 2021 Pending
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17/317690
Techniques for determining candidate beams to support full-duplex communication May 10, 2021 Issued
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17/313909
Measurement report with nested indexing May 5, 2021 Issued
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17/302517
Beam pair selection using uplink and downlink measurements May 4, 2021 Issued
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17/246361
Detecting static channels Apr 29, 2021 Issued
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17/243281
Partial measurement of reference signal for positioning resource Apr 27, 2021 Issued
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17/302200
Full duplex downlink and uplink beam pair selection Apr 26, 2021 Issued
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17/240890
High performance software-defined core network Apr 25, 2021 Issued
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17/234839
Method for configuring aperiodic channel state information-reference signal, network device, and terminal Apr 19, 2021 Issued
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17/226415
Techniques for reported resource indicator and maximum resource number for signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) in a wireless communication system Apr 8, 2021 Issued
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18/553604
MEASUREMENT REPORTING FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK Apr 6, 2021 Pending
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17/224364
Methods and systems for dynamic interference mitigation Apr 6, 2021 Issued
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17/437760
Channel state information reporting for multi-transmission-reception-point operation Mar 30, 2021 Issued
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17/914999
Method for network-guided WD cell reselection Mar 30, 2021 Issued
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17/216479
CONFIGURATION METHOD, COMMUNICATION DEVICE, AND COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Mar 28, 2021 Abandoned
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17/214034
Mobility robustness optimization (MRO) for new radio Mar 25, 2021 Issued
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17/211295
Interference-aware beam reporting in wireless communications Mar 23, 2021 Issued
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