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Kevin D. Rutherford

Examiner (ID: 4405)

Most Active Art Unit
3103
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3103
Total Applications
335
Issued Applications
292
Pending Applications
9
Abandoned Applications
34

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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15/896586
Intelligent network selection Feb 13, 2018 Issued
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16/476059
Method for transmitting radio resource control message, central unit and distributed unit Feb 13, 2018 Issued
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15/895500
Communication apparatus, method and system Feb 12, 2018 Issued
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15/893868
Dynamic bandwidth allocation for wireless mesh networks Feb 11, 2018 Issued
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15/887851
Method for transitioning radio resource control state of user equipment to idle state, system therefor, and the same user equipment Feb 1, 2018 Issued
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15/876716
Methods and systems for selection of optimal access points Jan 21, 2018 Issued
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15/875449
Arbitrating mastership between redundant control planes of a virtual node Jan 18, 2018 Issued
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15/874369
Communications device and methods for controlling stasis state transition for a mobile terminal Jan 17, 2018 Issued
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16/478242
Communication system, communication control method, and communication program Jan 16, 2018 Issued
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15/867961
Communication system and a method for operating or evaluating the same using selective base station sleeping Jan 10, 2018 Issued
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15/858517
Service enablement based on access network Dec 28, 2017 Issued
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15/859144
Device discovering method, apparatus and computer storage medium thereof Dec 28, 2017 Issued
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16/478803
Side information transmission method, side information reception method, transmitter and receiver Dec 28, 2017 Issued
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15/856289
Variable application of quality of service Dec 27, 2017 Issued
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15/848605
Using an uplink grant as trigger of first or second type of CQI report Dec 19, 2017 Issued
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15/840353
Systems and methods for providing I-SID translation in SPB networks Dec 12, 2017 Issued
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15/837093
Channel allocation system and method for accommodating multiple nodes in sensor network Dec 10, 2017 Issued
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15/821400
Methods for identifying mobile stations that are near neighbor cells Nov 21, 2017 Issued
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15/820096
System and method for semi-persistent and dynamic scheduling and discontinuous reception control Nov 20, 2017 Issued
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15/801680
Hew master station and method for communicating in accordance with a scheduled OFDMA technique on secondary channels Nov 1, 2017 Issued
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