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Liam J. Mcdowell

Examiner (ID: 15146)

Most Active Art Unit
3745
Art Unit(s)
3745, PTAB
Total Applications
519
Issued Applications
423
Pending Applications
5
Abandoned Applications
101

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/262587
Method by which user equipment controls transmission power of sidelink signal in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor Aug 7, 2019 Issued
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17/597756
Configuration of a control resource set and common search space for initial access by low tier user equipment Aug 4, 2019 Issued
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17/263303
Switch, control apparatus, communication system, communication control method and program Jul 30, 2019 Issued
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16/481389
Method and apparatus for group content delivery Jul 4, 2019 Issued
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16/502003
Re-allocation of positioning reference signal resources to accommodate another transmission Jul 1, 2019 Issued
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17/256004
Base station and user equipment Jun 27, 2019 Issued
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16/434644
Method and apparatus for power saving in personal area networks Jun 6, 2019 Issued
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16/432115
Hybrid automatic repeat request feedback method and apparatus Jun 4, 2019 Issued
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16/431469
Method and apparatus for communication between user equipments Jun 3, 2019 Issued
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16/429966
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signals in wireless vehicle communication system Jun 2, 2019 Issued
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16/428710
Implemented per-room VLANs May 30, 2019 Issued
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16/426619
Load balancing among bands and access points in a wireless network May 29, 2019 Issued
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16/426109
Error indication processing and system, and device May 29, 2019 Issued
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16/422029
Facilitating mesh networks of connected movable objects May 23, 2019 Issued
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16/417144
Terminal, base station, integrated circuit and signal transmission control method May 19, 2019 Issued
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17/058912
Aggregation of connected objects May 16, 2019 Issued
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16/410099
Reduced context or context-less short message transmission for machine-type-communication May 12, 2019 Issued
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16/977029
Network agnostic dynamic SATCOM system and associated network features Mar 7, 2019 Issued
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16/968303
NR RLC segment concatenation Feb 12, 2019 Issued
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16/264313
Systems and methods for radio resource management Jan 30, 2019 Issued
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