ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,477,515, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to MediaTek Inc. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Downlink control information-based paging early indicator" was invented by Yi-Ju Liao (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chi-Hsuan Hsieh (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Wei-De Wu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Li-Chuan Tseng (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of introducing a Downlink Control Information (DCI)-based early paging indication (PEI) for power consumption enhancements in a 5G/NR network is proposed. In particular, a Base Station (BS) can transmit a message including a PEI to a User Equipment (UE) when the UE is under an idle ode. Then, the UE can receive the PE...