US Patent Issued to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES on Feb. 3 for "Use of a common UE indicator channel for BS DTX energy saving" (American, Danish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,242, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY (Espoo, Finland).

"Use of a common UE indicator channel for BS DTX energy saving" was invented by John Harris (Whitefish Bay, Wis.) and Mads Lauridsen (Gistrup, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE receives configuration for a common uplink channel to be used by the user equipment to communicate with a BS concerning cell DTX operation by the BS. The UE determines that a cell DTX operation has already started or the BS has signaled that cell DTX operation will start. The UE transmits, over the common uplink channel, an indication of data transmission need concerning ce...