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Ricky D. Shafer

Examiner (ID: 6269, Phone: (571)272-2320 , Office: P/2872 )

Most Active Art Unit
2872
Art Unit(s)
2872, 2507
Total Applications
2489
Issued Applications
1822
Pending Applications
155
Abandoned Applications
537

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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15/825439
Service chaining at a network device Nov 28, 2017 Issued
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16/463917
Transmitting packet Nov 27, 2017 Issued
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16/464264
Method and system for carrying out timing related tasks Nov 23, 2017 Issued
Array ( [id] => 16610939 [patent_doc_number] => 10911973 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => B2 [patent_issue_date] => 2021-02-02 [patent_title] => Information notification device, information notification method, and recording medium having program recorded thereon [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 16/463558 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2017-11-20 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 11 [patent_figures_cnt] => 11 [patent_no_of_words] => 10152 [patent_no_of_claims] => 10 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => 3 [patent_words_short_claim] => 152 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => patent [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 16463558 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
16/463558
Information notification device, information notification method, and recording medium having program recorded thereon Nov 19, 2017 Issued
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16/758377
Communication network system Nov 12, 2017 Issued
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16/463754
Access method in communication system and device for performing same Oct 30, 2017 Issued
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16/754261
Reception beam selection for a radio access network Oct 29, 2017 Issued
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16/075327
Methods and devices for optimizing load balancing based on cloud monitoring Oct 23, 2017 Issued
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16/345892
Method for selecting a gateway for sending a frame Oct 22, 2017 Issued
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16/754918
Determining a transmission scheme Oct 9, 2017 Issued
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16/647430
User terminal and radio communication method Sep 14, 2017 Issued
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16/619362
Signal processing method and apparatus Sep 13, 2017 Issued
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15/702025
Method and apparatus for transmitting aperiodic channel state information in wireless communication system Sep 11, 2017 Issued
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15/695617
Method and apparatus for receiving ACK/NACK in wireless communication system Sep 4, 2017 Issued
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15/693279
Exchanging non-text content in real time text messages Aug 30, 2017 Issued
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15/693287
Satellite telephone monitoring Aug 30, 2017 Issued
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15/691503
Time synchronization with distributed grand master Aug 29, 2017 Issued
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15/691289
DATA TRAFFIC CONTROL Aug 29, 2017 Abandoned
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15/691268
Method and apparatus for ranging Aug 29, 2017 Issued
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15/691261
Method for scheduling a transmission of packets within a network Aug 29, 2017 Issued
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