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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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17/241052
QCI Based Traffic-Offload of PDN Traffic at Trusted Wifi Access Gateway Apr 25, 2021 Abandoned
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17/219903
Dynamic management of telecommunication services at user equipment Mar 31, 2021 Issued
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17/219678
Protocol overhead reduction Mar 30, 2021 Issued
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17/215922
Communication apparatus, method of controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for setting transmission rate Mar 28, 2021 Issued
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17/213019
Transmission collision processing method, terminal, and control node Mar 24, 2021 Issued
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17/194440
Autonomous Connection Switching in a Wireless Communication Network Mar 7, 2021 Pending
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17/171928
Channel Resource Set Indication Method and Device, and Computer Storage Medium Feb 8, 2021 Abandoned
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17/168785
Semi-persistent scheduling confirmation Feb 4, 2021 Issued
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17/166670
Relay apparatus in a mobile communication system Feb 2, 2021 Issued
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17/165318
Bluetooth mesh network provisioning Feb 1, 2021 Issued
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17/796477
Channel assignment in a wireless communication system Jan 28, 2021 Issued
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17/143426
Methods and systems for in-vehicle data-driven connectivity optimization in a network of moving things Jan 6, 2021 Issued
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17/136067
Communication device, base station, and communication method Dec 28, 2020 Issued
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17/134123
Methods and apparatus for managing uplink resource grants in wireless networks Dec 23, 2020 Issued
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17/128222
Information processing device, and information processing method using multiple multiplexing methods Dec 20, 2020 Issued
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17/126462
Transmutable MIMO wireless transceiver Dec 17, 2020 Issued
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17/109705
Correlating network and physical layer activities Dec 1, 2020 Issued
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17/247162
Sidelink resource selection assistance and paging Dec 1, 2020 Issued
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17/105321
Wideband control signal transmission Nov 24, 2020 Issued
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17/100519
Radio receiving apparatus, radio transmission apparatus, and communication method Nov 19, 2020 Issued
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