US Patent Issued to Nokia Solutions and Networks on April 8 for "Method and apparatus for resource allocation" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,273,863, issued on April 8, was assigned to Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy (Espoo, Finland).

"Method and apparatus for resource allocation" was invented by Esa Tiirola (Oulu, Finland) and Ilkka Keskitalo (Oulu, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprises receiving resource configuration from at least one of a parent node and donor node. The resource configuration comprises information defining at least one resource type for a plurality of links for at least one time and at least one resource. The method comprises allocating, in dependence on the resource configuration, the at least one resource for said at least one time t...