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William F. Smith

Examiner (ID: 14033)

Most Active Art Unit
1303
Art Unit(s)
1303
Total Applications
300
Issued Applications
267
Pending Applications
0
Abandoned Applications
33

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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17/798889
METHODS, INFRASTRUCTURE EQUIPMENT AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS Mar 11, 2021 Pending
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17/199098
Apparatus for a terminal device Mar 10, 2021 Issued
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17/797118
ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION, AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM Mar 8, 2021 Abandoned
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17/192441
Device allocation system Mar 3, 2021 Issued
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18/548722
TERMINAL, RADIO COMMUNICATION METHOD, AND BASE STATION Mar 3, 2021 Pending
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17/187496
Sidelink transmission pre-emption Feb 25, 2021 Issued
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17/184121
Transmitting signals using directional diversity over a network Feb 23, 2021 Issued
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17/179077
Methods to determine maximum number of valid unicast DCI per span and monitoring occasion Feb 17, 2021 Issued
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17/160709
Bandwidth part (BWP) frequency hopping Jan 27, 2021 Issued
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17/159383
Physical downlink shared channel including part of a downlink control information Jan 26, 2021 Issued
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17/791724
Method and apparatus for autonomous changing for dormant bandwidth part in a wireless communication system Jan 26, 2021 Issued
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17/157425
Dynamically detecting and correcting the deactivation of beamforming Jan 24, 2021 Issued
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17/248335
Power-efficient sidelink synchronization signal transmission Jan 19, 2021 Issued
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18/269029
WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND WIRELESS COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM Dec 24, 2020 Pending
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17/778049
SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PIM DETECTION USING RAN MEASUREMENTS Dec 22, 2020 Pending
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17/131448
MULTIPLE-HOP PEER-TO-PEER NETWORK Dec 21, 2020 Abandoned
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17/127890
Distributed multi-user (MU) wireless communication Dec 17, 2020 Issued
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17/110025
Low latency communication Dec 1, 2020 Issued
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17/103837
Cellular vehicle-to-everything allocation collision detection Nov 23, 2020 Issued
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17/778763
METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PERFORMING DCI BASED SIDELINK COMMUNICATION IN NR V2X Nov 19, 2020 Pending
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