US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 25 for "Applying access control in a communication device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,262,303, issued on March 25, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Applying access control in a communication device" was invented by Chih-Hsiang Wu (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Teming Chen (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE activates a timer for applying access control to transmissions associated with a certain access category during an access control period, in response to a first system information message received via a radio interface and a mobile-originated access request (1702). While the timer is running, the UE receives a second message that indicates a potential transition of the UE (i) from a current...