ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,057, issued on Aug. 19.
"Resource-efficient polling method for delivering messages to 5G/6G users" was invented by David E. Newman (Poway, Calif.) and R. Kemp Massengill (Palos Verdes, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Many wireless receivers in 5G and 6G are expected to use DRX (discontinuous reception) to save power. What is lacking is an efficient procedure to inform the DRX users that they have an incoming message on hold at the base station. Therefore, a procedure is disclosed for the base station to assign each user device to a section and a position within that section. Then the base station can periodically broadcast a po...