US Patent Issued to Sprint Spectrum on May 27 for "Use of backhaul packet-drop rate as basis to control transport block size for air-interface communication" (Kansas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,120, issued on May 27, was assigned to Sprint Spectrum LLC (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Use of backhaul packet-drop rate as basis to control transport block size for air-interface communication" was invented by Sreekar Marupaduga (Overland Park, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system to control transport block size (TBS) that a user equipment device (UE) served by an access node will use for uplink air-interface transmission from the UE to the access node, the TBS defining a quantity of data that the UE will provide in the uplink air-interface transmission. An example method includes (i) determining a rate of uplink backhaul ...