US Patent Issued to DISH Wireless on March 25 for "Managed discontinuous reception" (Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,442, issued on March 25, was assigned to DISH Wireless LLC (Englewood, Colo.).

"Managed discontinuous reception" was invented by Mehdi Alasti (Arlington, Va.) and Siddhartha Chenumolu (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A base station of a cellular network determines that a mobile device is in an ON period of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle. The base station determines that a number of data units in a buffer corresponding to the mobile device is at least a threshold value. The threshold value is a number greater than one. In response to determining that the number of data units in the buffer is at least the threshold ...