ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,363,679, issued on July 15, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Soft resource signaling in relay networks" was invented by Honglei Miao (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for determining in a new radio (NR) integrated access and backhaul (IAB) system a start symbol of available soft resources of an IAB node. In one aspect, a method includes determining, by a distributed unit (DU) of the IAB node and based on a configuration signal received from a central unit (CU) of an IAB donor, a configuration of available soft resources for a child link of th...