ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,533, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Uplink scheduling method, apparatus, and storage medium" was invented by Wei Hong (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An uplink scheduling method, an apparatus, and a storage medium that improves scheduling in a wireless communication network. The scheduling is improved by obtaining a first timing advance (TA) duration for a terminal measured and sent by a base station; determining a number of target uplink slots based on the first TA duration, where the target uplink slots are one or more uplink slots after a measurement gap during which ...