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Gerald A. Smarth

Examiner (ID: 15831, Phone: (571)270-1923 , Office: P/2478 )

Most Active Art Unit
2478
Art Unit(s)
2146, 2446, 2478
Total Applications
919
Issued Applications
729
Pending Applications
68
Abandoned Applications
135

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/549096
Method and Apparatus for Rate Control Feb 23, 2022 Pending
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17/665803
Bluetooth connection establishment Feb 6, 2022 Issued
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18/264209
Mesh Network Range Extension and Reliability Enhancement Through Lower Order MIMO Spatial Streams Feb 3, 2022 Abandoned
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17/592188
Downlink control information for multiple beam procedure types Feb 2, 2022 Issued
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17/586638
Method and apparatus for managing allocation and usage of radio resource, method and apparatus for transmitting data through unlicensed band channel, and method and apparatus for managing access of radio resource Jan 26, 2022 Issued
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17/577837
Information processing method and terminal Jan 17, 2022 Issued
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18/276230
Failure protection method and apparatus, storage medium, and electronic device Jan 10, 2022 Issued
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17/647093
Radio unit cascading in radio access networks Jan 4, 2022 Issued
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18/033460
File transmission method and apparatus, device, and storage medium Dec 29, 2021 Issued
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17/562674
Interference mitigation negotiation between network entities Dec 26, 2021 Issued
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17/557495
Intelligent vehicle systems and control logic for cellular link monitoring and failure detection Dec 20, 2021 Issued
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17/558270
Optimizing layer assignment during EPS fallback procedures Dec 20, 2021 Issued
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17/556782
Techniques for channel state information based artificial noise injection Dec 19, 2021 Issued
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17/457855
HARQ codebook determining method and apparatus, terminal device, and network device Dec 5, 2021 Issued
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17/543016
Method and system for handling of special SCell selection in dual connectivity Dec 5, 2021 Issued
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17/542056
Internet protocol broadcasting Dec 2, 2021 Issued
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17/524772
INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMPUTER-READABLE RECORDING MEDIUM HAVING STORED THEREIN INFORMATION PROCESSING PROGRAM, AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING INFORMATION Nov 11, 2021 Abandoned
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17/454444
Methods for switching between repeater and intelligent reflective surface operations in an assistive device Nov 9, 2021 Issued
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17/523562
Method for transmitting broadcast signals, apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, method for receiving broadcast signals and apparatus for receiving broadcast signals Nov 9, 2021 Issued
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17/506877
Reference signal sending method and apparatus Oct 20, 2021 Issued
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