US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Feb. 10 for "Sequence number (SN) synchronization mechanism in RLC-based forwarding" (Canadian, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,492, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Sequence number (SN) synchronization mechanism in RLC-based forwarding" was invented by Xixian Chen (Ottawa), Jun Wang (Nanjing, China) and James Jianfeng Weng (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, in a network in which a handover of a wireless device occurs, the User Equipment (UE) moving from a source cell to a target cell, is provided. The method comprises at least: (at the source cell) determining a sequence number (SN) related to a data packet; forwarding at the RLC layer data packets to the target cell, the data packe...