US Patent Issued to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS on Oct. 14 for "Allocation and logical to physical mapping of scheduling request indicator channel in wireless networks" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,043, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TEXAS INSTRUMENTS Inc. (Dallas).

"Allocation and logical to physical mapping of scheduling request indicator channel in wireless networks" was invented by Pierre Bertrand (Antibes, France), Zukang Shen (Allen, Texas) and Tarik Muharemovic (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for allocating resources for a scheduling request indicator (SRI) is disclosed. An SRI cycle period for use by user equipment (UE) within a cell is transmitted from a NodeB in a cell to UE within the cell. The NodeB transmits a specific SRI subframe offset and an index value to the particular UE within t...