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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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15/709964
Scheduling request transmission for directional beam access Sep 19, 2017 Issued
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15/695850
Operating with multiple schedulers in a wireless system Sep 4, 2017 Issued
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15/680099
Scheduling method and apparatus for spatial reuse Aug 16, 2017 Issued
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16/097628
Subscriber identity element for authenticating a communication device to a communication network Jul 27, 2017 Issued
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15/646632
Sequence number update Jul 10, 2017 Issued
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15/630837
Methods for transmitting and receiving control channel, base station, and user equipment Jun 21, 2017 Issued
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15/609361
Combining bandwidth from multiple cellular connections into a single WLAN network May 30, 2017 Issued
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15/558052
Adaptive transmission time interval length May 10, 2017 Issued
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15/499465
Method and apparatus for information transmission in wireless communication system Apr 26, 2017 Issued
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15/493651
USER PACKET FORWARDING CONTROL METHOD AND PROCESSING NODE Apr 20, 2017 Abandoned
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15/490819
Topology manager for failure detection in a distributed computing system Apr 17, 2017 Issued
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15/487079
Method for scheduling closed loop information in wireless networks Apr 12, 2017 Issued
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15/484769
System and method of logical channel prioritization for D2D communication Apr 10, 2017 Issued
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15/482660
Coordinated multipoint set size based on quality of service Apr 6, 2017 Issued
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15/480019
TTI bundling for URLLC UL/DL transmissions Apr 4, 2017 Issued
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15/479113
Sounding reference signals with collisions in asymmetric carrier aggregation Apr 3, 2017 Issued
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15/469362
Response rules of trigger frame Mar 23, 2017 Issued
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16/496587
A CONDITION FOR HANDOVER Mar 21, 2017 Abandoned
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15/439629
WIRELESS STATION AND METHOD FOR MANAGING A MULTI-BAND SESSION IN WI-FI DIRECT SERVICES Feb 21, 2017 Abandoned
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15/438374
Apparatus and method for allocating resource in a mobile communication system Feb 20, 2017 Issued
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