Intellectual Property India Publishes Patent Application for 'An On-Demand Reconfigurable Control Plane Architecture (ORCA) Integrating Millimeter-Wave Small Cell And Microwave Macro Cell' Filed by Mediatek Inc.

MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (201727040212 A) filed by Mediatek Inc., Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, on Nov. 10, 2017, for 'an on-demand reconfigurable control plane architecture (orca) integrating millimeter-wave small cell and microwave macro cell.'

Inventor(s) include Sang, Aimin Justin; Zhang, Yuanyuan; and Jheng, Yu-Syuan.

The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.

According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "Millimeter-wave (mmWave) band communication is a very promising technology for 5G small cells. In practice, such a new system will coexist with legacy or evolved microwave band systems, such as E-UTRAN LTE macro-cell...