ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,387, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Adaptation layer enhancement in relay networks" was invented by Honglei Miao (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for adaptation layer enhancements in new radio (NR) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks. In one aspect, a method includes performing, by an adaptation layer of an IAB node of the IAB network, header compression on one or more headers of a packet for transmission in the IAB network; and transmitting the packet with the one or more compressed headers to a destination IAB node of...