US Patent Issued to InterDigital Patent Holdings on July 29 for "Serving gateway extensions for inter-system mobility" (Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,375,917, issued on July 29, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Serving gateway extensions for inter-system mobility" was invented by John L. Tomici (Southold, N.Y.), Michael F. STarsinic (Newton, Pa.) and Qing Li (Princeton Junction, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, devices, and systems related to serving gateway extensions for inter-system mobility in integrated small Cell and WiFi networks. An SGW may be extended into a common intermediate gateway for both LTE and WiFi access. A GTP-based "SI a" interface between a TWAN and an SGW is introduced. The STa interface between TWAN and 3 GPP AA...