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Willis Little

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3203
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Total Applications
2327
Issued Applications
2182
Pending Applications
48
Abandoned Applications
97

Applications

Application numberTitle of the applicationFiling DateStatus
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18/051847
Utilizing device state information in simultaneous radio transmission scenarios for radio frequency (RF) exposure compliance Oct 31, 2022 Issued
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17/976405
Method and system for mobility management in communication networks Oct 27, 2022 Issued
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17/976691
Active tunnel selection for facilitating loop-free layer-2 traffic forwarding in an overlay network Oct 27, 2022 Issued
Array ( [id] => 18334366 [patent_doc_number] => 20230126314 [patent_country] => US [patent_kind] => A1 [patent_issue_date] => 2023-04-27 [patent_title] => METHODS AND DEVICES FOR REPLICATING MULTICAST CONTROL PACKETS IN HARDWARE [patent_app_type] => utility [patent_app_number] => 17/973604 [patent_app_country] => US [patent_app_date] => 2022-10-26 [patent_effective_date] => 0000-00-00 [patent_drawing_sheets_cnt] => 0 [patent_figures_cnt] => 0 [patent_no_of_words] => 5346 [patent_no_of_claims] => 0 [patent_no_of_ind_claims] => -17 [patent_words_short_claim] => 68 [patent_maintenance] => 1 [patent_no_of_assignments] => 0 [patent_current_assignee] =>[type] => publication [pdf_file] =>[firstpage_image] =>[orig_patent_app_number] => 17973604 [rel_patent_id] =>[rel_patent_doc_number] =>)
17/973604
Methods and devices for replicating multicast control packets in hardware Oct 25, 2022 Issued
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17/973604
Methods and devices for replicating multicast control packets in hardware Oct 25, 2022 Issued
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17/971131
Optimal internet pathway selection Oct 20, 2022 Issued
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18/047185
Method of transmission in shared spectrum, user equipment and storage medium Oct 16, 2022 Issued
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17/967795
Methods and apparatus for application aware hub clustering techniques for a hyper scale SD-WAN Oct 16, 2022 Issued
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17/967795
Methods and apparatus for application aware hub clustering techniques for a hyper scale SD-WAN Oct 16, 2022 Issued
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17/967795
Methods and apparatus for application aware hub clustering techniques for a hyper scale SD-WAN Oct 16, 2022 Issued
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18/047185
Method of transmission in shared spectrum, user equipment and storage medium Oct 16, 2022 Issued
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17/929849
Reduced capability user equipment operations Sep 5, 2022 Issued
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17/929624
Orbit determination service Sep 1, 2022 Issued
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17/823611
TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK FOR SKIPPED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL TRANSMISSIONS Aug 30, 2022 Pending
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17/823611
TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK FOR SKIPPED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL TRANSMISSIONS Aug 30, 2022 Pending
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17/823611
TRANSMITTING FEEDBACK FOR SKIPPED PHYSICAL DOWNLINK SHARED CHANNEL TRANSMISSIONS Aug 30, 2022 Pending
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17/889855
Method, apparatus and computer program for configuring one or more parameters associated with a network function Aug 16, 2022 Issued
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17/819400
Cell global identity CGI processing method and device Aug 11, 2022 Issued
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17/819400
Cell global identity CGI processing method and device Aug 11, 2022 Issued
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17/818181
Power-conserving off-loaded location service Aug 7, 2022 Issued
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