US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on Aug. 5 for "Assistance signaling for radio link control retransmissions" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,654, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Assistance signaling for radio link control retransmissions" was invented by Liangming Wu (Beijing), Changlong Xu (Beijing), Kangqi Liu (San Diego), Jian Li (Shanghai) and Xipeng Zhu (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for sending, from an upper layer at a transmitting device to a lower layer at the transmitting device, an indication by which the lower layer determines that a packet is to be transmitted as either an initial transmission or as a retr...