US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on Nov. 11 for "User equipment identity management for coordinating base stations" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,258, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"User equipment identity management for coordinating base stations" was invented by Jibing Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Erik Stauffer (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a radio access network (RAN), a method for increasing network efficiency includes partitioning a pool of identifiers into at least a plurality of identifier sets associated with a plurality of respective sets of base stations in the RAN. The identifier sets include a first identifier set associated with a first base station set of the plurality of respective sets of base s...