ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. RE50,704, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Apparatus and method for signaling of message sequencing for fronthaul interface" was invented by Sanil Rama Chandran (McKinney, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An O-RAN packet to be transmitted includes a header having a packet sequence number that is independent of an uplink/downlink direction in which the packet is to be transmitted. The header, which may be an eCPRI or RoE header, is generated without regard for a data direction bit. The packet sequence number is generated within a sequence count generator of the controller that oper...