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Eric W. Shepperd

Examiner (ID: 11214, Phone: (571)270-5654 , Office: P/2492 )

Most Active Art Unit
2492
Art Unit(s)
2492, 2453, 2456
Total Applications
631
Issued Applications
478
Pending Applications
40
Abandoned Applications
122

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/282973
Mini-slot reservation channel transmission in V2V communications Oct 1, 2019 Issued
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16/589007
Method and apparatus for controlling a electronic device in a communication system Sep 29, 2019 Issued
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16/578701
DATA SENDING METHOD AND APPARATUS, AND DATA RECEIVING METHOD AND APPARATUS Sep 22, 2019 Abandoned
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16/579619
Method and system for signaling transmission layers for single user and multi user MIMO Sep 22, 2019 Issued
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16/578410
Peer-to-peer sharing of network resources Sep 22, 2019 Issued
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16/577518
Session migration method and device Sep 19, 2019 Issued
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16/567589
Route processing method, device, and system Sep 10, 2019 Issued
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16/564728
Apparatus and method for allocating resource in a mobile communication system Sep 8, 2019 Issued
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16/564559
Method and apparatus for performing radio link monitoring in wireless communication system Sep 8, 2019 Issued
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16/549328
Notice of absence support for coexistence Aug 22, 2019 Issued
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17/266462
METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING OR RECEIVING MPDCCH IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING MTC, AND APPARATUS THEREFOR Aug 7, 2019 Abandoned
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17/263311
Method and system for exchanging information for sidelink communication in a wireless network Aug 6, 2019 Issued
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17/621929
THERMAL MANAGEMENT BY SYSTEMATIC NETWORK RECONFIGURATION Jul 29, 2019 Abandoned
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16/972196
Method and apparatus for supporting link congestion detection in wireless communication system Jul 21, 2019 Issued
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16/516043
Status monitoring of inline network tools Jul 17, 2019 Issued
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16/449249
Sounding reference signals with collisions in asymmetric carrier aggregation Jun 20, 2019 Issued
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16/431261
Service continuity ensuring method, control plane gateway, and mobility management network element Jun 3, 2019 Issued
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17/251290
Techniques for controlling computational resources of a radio access network Jun 2, 2019 Issued
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16/418832
Operating with multiple schedulers in a wireless system May 20, 2019 Issued
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16/416506
Response rules of trigger frame May 19, 2019 Issued
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