ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,232,091, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Nokia Technologies Oy (Espoo, Finland).
"Data transmission slot indexing" was invented by Nhat-Quang Nhan (Reims, France), Keeth Saliya Jayasinghe Laddu (Espoo, Finland) and Zexian Li (Espoo, Finland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program is provided comprising: determining a plurality of candidate data transmission slots, wherein each candidate data transmission slot has an index and said plurality of candidate data transmission slots are arranged in an order; setting an index of a current candidate data transmission slot of the plurality to be an incremental ...