US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on Jan. 28 for "Method and apparatus of scheduling for device to device (D2D) communication" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,212,415, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus of scheduling for device to device (D2D) communication" was invented by Dong Hyun Park (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Exemplary embodiments provide a method and apparatus for supporting a device-to-device (D2D) communication between user equipments (UEs), the method including: generating, at an evolved NodeB (eNB), D2D scheduling assignment (D2D SA) grant; transmitting the generated D2D SA grant to a transmission (Tx) UTE, the D2D SA grant enabling the Tx UE to transmit an SA to a reception (Rx) UE through a D2D...