US Patent Issued to ZTE on May 27 for "Access network signaling and resource allocation for multicast/broadcast sessions" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,317,295, issued on May 27, was assigned to ZTE Corp. (Shenzhen, China).

"Access network signaling and resource allocation for multicast/broadcast sessions" was invented by Tao Qi (Shenzhen, China), Lin Chen (Shenzhen, China), Liping Wang (Shenzhen, China), Hao Zhu (Shenzhen, China) and Kun Cao (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes an architecture for supporting MBS sessions in a wireless access network. Each of such MBS sessions is flexibly and dynamically delivered by the access network into one or more Point-To-Point (PTP, or unicast) and Point-To-Multipoint (PTM, or multicast) delivery instances. As...