ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,490,227, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).
"Uplink transmission method and apparatus" was invented by Yi Wang (Shanghai), Yingjie Yu (Shanghai), Su Huang (Shanghai) and Yinghao Guo (Shanghai).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application discloses an indoor-outdoor determining-based uplink transmission method and apparatus. A terminal device or a positioning device determines whether the terminal device is located indoors or outdoors. The terminal device or the positioning device sends a first message to an access network device, where the first message includes a first information element...