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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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15/884854
Control Information Indication Method and Apparatus Jan 30, 2018 Abandoned
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15/882570
Method and system for signaling transmission layers for single user and multi user MIMO Jan 28, 2018 Issued
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15/836150
Wireless communication device, electronic timepiece, wireless communication method, and recording medium Dec 7, 2017 Issued
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15/825676
Combining bandwidth from multiple cellular connections into a single WLAN network Nov 28, 2017 Issued
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15/818574
Base-station control apparatus, base-station apparatus, and control method that determine a number of training packets to be transmitted by a wireless terminal Nov 19, 2017 Issued
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15/818670
Multi-path routing Nov 19, 2017 Issued
Array ( [id] => 15403735 [patent_doc_number] => 10542540 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2020-01-21 [patent_title] => Network device and method for wireless local area network scheduling [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 15/816662 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2017-11-17 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 14 [patent_figures_cnt] => 17 [patent_no_of_words] => 13550 [patent_no_of_claims] => 21 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 9 [patent_words_short_claim] => 172 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 15816662 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
15/816662
Network device and method for wireless local area network scheduling Nov 16, 2017 Issued
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15/815024
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving scheduling requests Nov 15, 2017 Issued
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15/812937
Systems and methods for implementing handovers in a vehicle communication system Nov 13, 2017 Issued
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15/812218
METHODS, APPARATUSES AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR CONTROLLING A WIRELESS CONNECTION Nov 13, 2017 Abandoned
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15/812246
Semi-persistent scheduling confirmation Nov 13, 2017 Issued
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15/812326
Information processing apparatus and method for conducting wireless communication using a plurality of transmission methods and channels Nov 13, 2017 Issued
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15/812418
Wireless communication Nov 13, 2017 Issued
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16/348787
Method and apparatus for configuring RRC connection establishment cause for relay terminal in idle state in wireless communication system Nov 9, 2017 Issued
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15/805447
Interconnect congestion control in a storage grid Nov 6, 2017 Issued
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15/798292
Service specific route selection in communication networks Oct 29, 2017 Issued
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15/796502
Network accessing method for mobile terminal and mobile terminal Oct 26, 2017 Issued
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15/787958
Optimizing keepalive and other background traffic in a wireless network Oct 18, 2017 Issued
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15/786818
Apparatus, system, and method for packet switching Oct 17, 2017 Issued
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15/782735
Systems and methods for controlling switches to record network packets using a traffic monitoring network Oct 11, 2017 Issued
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