ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,356, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sharp K.K. (Sakai, Japan).
"User equipment (UE)" was invented by Yasuo Sugawara (Sakai, Japan) and Yudai Kawasaki (Sakai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A UE transmits a registration request message including an S-NSSAI and receives a registration accept message including the S-NSSAI, a first cause value, and a first back-off timer value. The UE starts a back-off timer using the first back-off timer value corresponding to the S-NSSAI. In a case that the UE receives a configuration update command including the S-NSSAI, a second cause value, and a second back-off timer value before expira...