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Gerald A Smarth

Examiner (ID: 3594, Phone: (571)270-1923 , Office: P/2478 )

Most Active Art Unit
2478
Art Unit(s)
2146, 2478, 2446
Total Applications
890
Issued Applications
699
Pending Applications
98
Abandoned Applications
129

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/172249
COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATIONS APPARATUS Feb 9, 2021 Abandoned
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18/256043
IMPROVEMENT IN NETWORK CODING FOR HANDOVER Feb 9, 2021 Pending
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17/171514
Resource configuration method and apparatus Feb 8, 2021 Issued
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17/169066
Method for receiving downlink control information by UE in wireless communication system, and apparatus for same Feb 4, 2021 Issued
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17/152761
User multiplexing for uplink control information Jan 18, 2021 Issued
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17/145731
Telecommunications system, terminal device, infrastructure equipment and methods Jan 10, 2021 Issued
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17/142914
Efficient session management Jan 5, 2021 Issued
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17/139737
Device and vehicle pairing using a network connection Dec 30, 2020 Issued
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17/134077
Method and apparatus for avoiding packet fragmentation Dec 23, 2020 Issued
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17/133671
Offloading a user device into a wireless network using an ANDSF application Dec 23, 2020 Issued
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17/127249
Multi-VPN multi link traffic routing Dec 17, 2020 Issued
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17/121355
Method of multi-link power save indication Dec 13, 2020 Issued
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17/113819
Method and apparatus for receiving a synchronization signal Dec 6, 2020 Issued
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17/108974
Random access resource allocation for integrated access and backhaul nodes Nov 30, 2020 Issued
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17/105807
Method and apparatus for managing non-integrity protected message Nov 26, 2020 Issued
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17/778819
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECEIVING PPDU VIA MULTIPLE RU IN WIRELESS LAN SYSTEM Nov 23, 2020 Issued
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17/102234
Measure and improve clock synchronization using combination of transparent and boundary clocks Nov 22, 2020 Issued
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18/036533
COMMUNICATION METHOD AND COMMUNICATION DEVICE Nov 12, 2020 Pending
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17/095384
Communicating vehicular communication messages Nov 10, 2020 Issued
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17/090579
BIER overlay signaling enhancement Nov 4, 2020 Issued
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