ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,348, issued on May 27, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).
"Device-assisted communication with network coding" was invented by Shanyu Zhou (San Diego), Olufunmilola Omolade Awoniyi-Oteri (San Diego), Jelena Damnjanovic (Del Mar, Calif.) and Tao Luo (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an aspect of the disclosure, a UE may be configured to receive a dataset in an encoded format on a network communication interface. The UE may be further configured to transmit a unicast transmission including a subset of the dataset on a direct communication interface to another UE when a non-unicast transmission is received indicating t...