ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,969, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Timer for quality of experience measurements" was invented by Jianhua Liu (Beijing), Xipeng Zhu (San Diego), Shankar Krishnan (San Diego), Rajeev Kumar (San Diego), Charles Nung Lo (San Diego) and Juan Zhang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may start a timer for obtaining quality of experience (QoE) measurements. The UE may obtain the QoE measurements until the timer expires. The UE may transmit information indicating the QoE measurement...