ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,039, issued on July 29, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Power saving enhancements for paging reception" was invented by Linhai He (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a wireless network, a base station may transmit a paging early indication (PEI) to a user equipment (UE) before a paging occasion (PO) to indicate whether the UE should wake up to receive a page, which is more power-efficient than legacy paging reception. However, UEs may not universally support PEI. Furthermore, a UE lacking PEI support cannot realize the potential power savings offered by a PEI. Accordingly, a UE may transmit, to a base station, ca...