ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,446, issued on March 18, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Small data usage enablement in 3GPP networks" was invented by Suresh Palanisamy (Tamilnadu, India), Michael F. Starsinic (Newtown, Pa.) and Paul L. Russell Jr. (Pennington, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The standards organization 3GPP is exploring new small data delivery techniques for machine-type communications (MTC). It is recognized herein that existing approaches leave the "small data" decision to the service capability server (SCS) for downlink data and to the user equipment (UE) for uplink data. A user equipment (UE) or the c...