US Patent Issued to QUALCOMM on May 20 for "Pre-emptive buffer status report extension for network power saving" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,309,704, issued on May 20, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Pre-emptive buffer status report extension for network power saving" was invented by Bassem Khalfi (San Diego), Ahmed Attia Abotabl (San Diego) and Muhammad Sayed Khairy Abdelghaffar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first device (e.g., an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node) may obtain one or more messages from one or more second devices (e.g., user equipments (UEs), child nodes) communicating with the first device, the messages triggering the first device to generate a bu...