US Patent Issued to AT&T Technical Services on Jan. 27 for "Optional requesting of system information delivery in advanced networks" (Virginia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,538,181, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to AT&T Technical Services Co. Inc. (Vienna, Va.).

"Optional requesting of system information delivery in advanced networks" was invented by Daniel Vivanco (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed technology is directed towards improving system usage of a communication network with respect to on-demand system information delivery for certain user equipment devices. When a first user equipment requests on-demand delivery of other system information block data (e.g., SIB2, SIB3, and so on) from a base station, a second device, and possibly other devices, can wait to receive the oth...