ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,703, issued on May 20, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).
"Signal monitoring skipping method and apparatus" was invented by Yiru Kuang (Beijing), Baokun Shan (Shenzhen, China) and Haibo Xu (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A signal monitoring method is provided: If the terminal device determines, based on a message received or sent in a first time unit, that the terminal device is not in a DRX active time in a second time unit, the terminal device monitors the power saving signal in the second time unit. The terminal device determines, based on the power saving signal, whether to monitor a PDCCH in ...